Bug#607368: Kernel ABI management
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
Hi,
>> Good luck with that, it's been tried already with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()
>> and people still do work around that.
>
> That is probably copyright infringement.
Maybe, maybe not. Nobody actually really knows.
> It sounds like you should really be using ESX/vSphere on the host,
> rather than VMware Server on Debian. I mean, VMware Server is basically
> demo-ware.
That's VMware Player/Workstation running on workstations, not servers,
actually. So no, we don't need ESX/vSphere.
> Where are your bug reports on nouveau?
I don't think there is any value in reporting that an nVidia card that
was released last month doesn't work with nouveau. I think the nouveau
folks do know it's not supported without me telling them.
> Binary-only drivers for Linux are generally copyright infringements. If
Says you. Again, nobody really knows. Some may very well be infringing
copyrights, sure.
> we break them: good. (I know nvidia provides a Linux-specific stub as
> source and it might be an exception to this.)
You can be assured that I share your feelings towards binary-only
drivers.
>> I'm pretty disappointed by the way you're handling this; it feels like
>> you have little care for what your users actually need.
>
> We do, just not all of what *you* (one of our users) want.
Yeah, I'm probably the only Debian folk out there that has to support a
thousand workstations with VMware. We should definitely move to RedHat,
or something.
JB.
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