Re: [LinuxBIOS] Advice for buying a new and not-obsolete workstation?

[Segher Boessenkool]

> > > Ouch. When he says, "The driver remains completely functional in the
> > > absense of the binary piece", surely some functionality is missing -
> > > what is this? I don't understand enough (yet) to know from that post
> >
> > It means that you get basic access to the device w/o being able to  
> > take
> > advantage of the more advanced features.  Probably due to them
> > subcontracting a third-party to do the advanced stuff.
>
> Anyone know what exactly the advanced stuff is?

Macrovision DRM amongst others.  The Intel drivers also
still need a binary BIOS for modesetting, at least on
some chips.

Segher