> Do I get my nerd cred now? Have I satisfied you, all knowing hacker news poster?
No, you have fundamental errors in your understanding of how electrophoretic displays work. That's not how waveforms work. You're confusing refresh with REAGL. Since you have some kind of attitude issue, I guess no further beneficial discussion is possible.
> That logic came to us as a pre-baked kernel module from our hardware vendor, and EIH did not want us to know what was in it, though it wasn't too hard for us to figure out what it did.
No, you have fundamental errors in your understanding of how electrophoretic displays work. That's not how waveforms work. You're confusing refresh with REAGL. Since you have some kind of attitude issue, I guess no further beneficial discussion is possible.
> That logic came to us as a pre-baked kernel module from our hardware vendor, and EIH did not want us to know what was in it, though it wasn't too hard for us to figure out what it did.
Evidence free comments don't strengthen a claim.