nvidia

[Scott van Looy]

Today Ed Greshko did spake thusly:

> Scott van Looy wrote:
>
>> The point Les appears to be missing is that the binary blob doesn't stay
>> the same because the cards it supports don't stay the same. And as
>> NVidia upgrade their hardware, they'll slowly stop supporting the older
>> hardware.
>
> I'm not convinced that is a correct or valid statement.
>
> I'm running a system with a TNT2 card from NVidia that I bought sometime in
> 2000 or 2001.  This hardware has not be produced in a long time.  The
> drivers are still available and fixes are made in the "NVidia Legacy GPU
> Channel".

They recently split the drivers in two. Your driver will be getting 
security fixes and some bug fixes and no more. The goal for them will be 
to create something stable that they don't need to touch any more. Makes 
business sense, no?

It's up to them what they do. There's no way someone else can easily step 
in if they decide not to continue actively maintaining old hardware.

Just because this old card works for you at the moment doesn't mean it 
always will. NVidia are very good at supporting legacy hardware, other 
companies are less so, I was merely using them as an example as that's 
what we were talking about.

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