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one of the things I worry about is that with mellanox now being owned by nvidia, they're going to be much more hostile in the future to having real open source
by walrus01 5y ago
one of the things I worry about is that with mellanox now being owned by nvidia, they're going to be much more hostile in the future to having real open source full capability drivers for the linux and freebsd kernels.
the drivers you can download from the mellanox website to build them as DKMS modules already have absurd licenses.
- lostlogin 5y agoWell, this comment made my day worse. Second-hand 10gb Mellanox cards off eBay are a minor addiction of mine, and can be as inexpensive as US$10 of a good day. Utterly pointless for me, and so good.
- kierank 5y agoThe main driver tarball is GPL. All the tarballs are too complex to follow though, we extract them one by one here: https://github.com/OpenBroadcastSystems/mlnx-driver https://github.com/OpenBroadcastSystems/mlnx-driver