la, 2007-09-01 kello 17:19 +0100, Giles Jones kirjoitti: > I wouldn't know since I've not looked into such things. But ATI have > mobile GPUs and are open sourcing desktop drivers, maybe they would > do the same for their mobile devices?
ATI's intentions to open source their GPU drivers have been greatly exaggarated. They have mostly made vague statements about supporting Linux / open source [OSes] better. And noise has been made for a while. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for them to actually deliver. (Shame on AMD.) And of course, even if they freed such "commodity" drivers, some PHB could well be persuaded to keep a tight lid on their super-secret embedded stuff. But of course, it'd be a step forward. Oh, incidentally, I don't really know the market situation of free software friendly low-power GPUs either. It's just an educated assumption on my part that this is likely to be the best deal OM are likely to get in this area. I pretty much trust the OM guys to feel the same way, since, well, they picked the SMedia. -- Mikko Rauhala - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - <URL:http://www.iki.fi/mjr/> Transhumanist - WTA member - <URL:http://www.transhumanism.org/> Singularitarian - SIAI supporter - <URL:http://www.singinst.org/> _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
