On Wednesday 02 April 2008 18:32, Tom Cooksey wrote: > On Sunday 30 March 2008 13:42:23 Harald Welte wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 07:46:52PM +0100, joerg wrote: > > > Am Do 27. März 2008 schrieb Lally Singh: > > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > > > > >> 2. Actually, is there any hope of getting 3d acceleration out > > > > > >> of the graphics chip, or is that too bogged down with NDA-ness? > > > > > >> Are we stuck porting Mesa3D? > > > > > > > > > > Chance, sure, but the NDA situation is pretty bad it turns out for > > > > > the Glamo. > > > > > > > > It's a shame! Poor (Glamo) fools are shooting themselves in the foot > > > > on this one. > > > > > > full ACK! Anyway there's hope, there were volunteers on one of the > > > lists yesterday, who might be willing to sign a NDA. > > > > Please note though, that being one of the persons who drafted the > > wording on the contract between Smedia and OpenMoko: The contract > > contains explicit provisions for OpenMoko preparing a set of > > documentation for the Glamo chip, not carbon-copying from the original > > NDA'd docs, and then cooperating with Smedia to jointly release that > > new manual. > > > > However, I doubt that given the current load and priority situation, > > there would be anyone doing paid work on that set of new documentation. > > As one (perhaps only one?) who volunteered to start work on a DRM driver
This was already looked at by me, as the one who is doing the Neo Qtopia port. Looked at least for a Qt embedded gfxplugin. > for the glamo (the first step to 3D), I can confirm that the NDA OpenMoko > has with SMedia prevents them from releasing any docs to 3rd parties, > with or without an NDA. > > So, yes, I'm willing to sign an NDA to get the docs to write a driver. This > was to be done in my own time and for free. I would have done it on Trolltech's time. :) > As OpenMoko isn't allowed > to release the docs to me at all, even if I do sign an NDA, I have to go to > SMedia. Sadly, as Lorn has pointed out, SMedia wants $15,000 before > they will release the docs under NDA. As this was going to be a personal > project, I have no intention of forking out $15,000 of my own money to > write a driver. > > I've been in discussion with my managers here in Trolltech to see if the > company would put up the cash and perhaps even pay me a little to do > it. Sadly we've all agreed that this would take too much time away from > my other work and there is other hardware which already have drivers I > can work with. This is what we already came to the conclusion of within 3 seconds of reading smedia's offer. -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter Software Engineer, Systems Group, MES, Trolltech _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community