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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.3pre1: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:73! 
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>On Suday, 11 March 2001, at 17:54:23 (+1100),
>Keith Owens wrote:
>> Bug caused by binary only driver.  Complain to nvidia, not linux-kernel.
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:12:50 -0800, 
David Raufeisen <david@fortyoz.org> wrote:
>Well, the kernel module is open source..

That is just the glue code that nvidia uses to fool people.  The kernel
module just creates a device that the main nvidia driver abuses to
bypass all the kernel checks.  The real code is a 2M binary only blob.