XLibre
How will you handle poison pill code? #202
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When i explains the fork situation friend, who's more of a hardware guy. He pointed out that there is a possibility desktop-dot-org might poison pill the driver code. Most likely amdgpu or intel code something like. |
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We're not using the XOrg drivers, we've already forked them. The only driver for which this is even possible is Nvidia, but now, the modesetting drivers on Nvidia proprietary finally kinda works ( X11Libre/xserver#373 ). The poison should be at a lower level than the X driver, like in the EGL driver or in the kernel module, but, because it's Free Software (as in it grants the user the four essential freedoms, two of which are to modify the software, and to distribute modified versions), distros that support XLibre will simply ship a patched version with the malicious code removed, the only one actually able to do it is, again, Nvidia. |
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Then i will hope the gentoo ebuilds will soon pull from those git repo's soon. |
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Fore sure some of the people that work on Mesa work on Linux too, but, again, in the case of DRM, there's nothing preventing distros from shipping a version with the DRM patched out, it already happened with Bottles, it can happen with Linux and Mesa. Still, I have my doubts that they will fall that low, especially knowing that it will cause more drama, more people seeing them as the bad guys, and more people switching to XLibre. |
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I hope so. But I've learned not to underestimate these kind of people's stupidity, thus the question. Especially with who they hire, and how they think it's alright to use a company account to do childish things like deface wiki's. |
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@Slatepaws Was your question answered and if so could you please hit the "Mark as answer" button on any reply? |
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Thank you! |
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We're not using the XOrg drivers, we've already forked them. The only driver for which this is even possible is Nvidia, but now, the modesetting drivers on Nvidia proprietary finally kinda works ( X11Libre/xserver#373 ).
The poison should be at a lower level than the X driver, like in the EGL driver or in the kernel module, but, because it's Free Software (as in it grants the user the four essential freedoms, two of which are to modify the software, and to distribute modified versions), distros that support XLibre will simply ship a patched version with the malicious code removed, the only one actually able to do it is, again, Nvidia.