linux 3d applications keep crashing

[Robert Huff]

Robert Noland writes:

>  > 	The alternative - which sounds seductive but may have its own
>  > issues - would be to fill the Nvidia requests and let them write and
>  > maintain the code.  Again, worthy project (which might have
>  > collateral benefits).  Again, a lot of work.  And an even more
>  > esoteric skill-set.
>  
>  The features that Nvidia has requested are fairly reasonable and
>  could be used in the open source drivers as well.

	Question: would anything _other_ than graphics cards find these
features useful?

>  But, even if/when we deliver those features, they may not be
>  MFC-able.  Any ABI changes in either Xorg or our kernel,
>  generally will render the blob useless...

	That might be a path worth taking.  A one time change, well
conceived and executed, that goes along with a ".0" release should
not be that disruptive.


			Robert "in my uninformed guesstimate" Huff