On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Wookey <[email protected]> wrote: > Luke - you are quite right that free GPU drivers is important, in the > same way that free software in general is important, and that > currently the whole ARM embedded graphics area is a disaster area with > 5 competing implementations _all_ of which are non-free. > > However posting your rant as the first mail after the announcement of > this kind sponsorship in the embedded/ARM Sprint therad was just rude. > One should at the very least pause to say 'thank you', before > launching into a diatribe otherwise one tends not to get invited > again.
apologies - subtly and tact have never really been my strong points. i _think_ people are kinda getting used to me now as "definitely being a bit over-the-top, but otherwise harmless". that's my hope, anyway :) but i actually much much prefer what you've written here, to what i have: it's definitely clarifying matters and puts things into perspective in a much better way than i ever could! > I see strong hints that at least one GPU vendor will provide design > info soon so that 3rd party drivers can be written. realllyyy? veery goood. > They are too > scared to hand over their own code, but seem OK with 3rd-party free > drivers being written. could you, privately, let me know which one it is? i know that samsung's S3C6410 GPU engine is being reverse-engineered from two different angles, the linux angle _and_ the wince angle, but i'm seriously seriously trying to find a decent Cortex A8 CPU with a _remote_ chance of a free software 3D stack. l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
