Hi all, As you may know, there has been a lot of noise around VIA's recent efforts to become a better FOSS community citizen. Subsequently, the openchrome development team has renewed its efforts to develop better relations with them. After a fair bit of discussion, some of us have signed an NDA with VIA, which allows us to write code under a large variety of free licenses. We also have access to some documentation before it is publicly released. We have been assured that this is only a temporary solution while VIA works to improve the docs before they are released free of chains to the whole community. VIA already released some CX700 and VX800 docs on http://www.x.org/docs/via. Openchrome is also involved in a discussion with VIA on how to get open source support for the 3D part of the Chrome9 chipset IGP.
On the 2D front, we have basically agreed that openchrome is the way to go, as it is well structured and is well integrated in the FOSS ecosystem. Harald Welte, of netfilter and Openmoko fame that VIA recently hired as a consultant, is pushing heavily in this direction, amongst other helpful things to close the gap between VIA and the FOSS community. However, the openchrome driver, while having some advantages like free modesetting, EXA support, XvMC VLD acceleration, and cleaner code, is lacking some features the VIA driver has, so the next step is to port missing features from the recently released VIA opensource driver (xf86-video-via-83.1.0 available from VIA Linux portal at http://linux.via.com.tw) to openchrome, and this is indeed quite a bit of work. Tim Chen, a VIA developer, will join us and initially assist with dual head and RANDR support. However, the openchrome development team is and has always been understaffed, so if you or your company has been looking to get involved, this is the right time to get on board. If you're willing to help, please join the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-devel. We'll share more on the openchrome's todo list over there. Kind regards, the openchrome development team. _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list openchrome-users@openchrome.org http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
