On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 07:51, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > So the problem isn't initialising the chips without the firmware, but > what to initialise them to.
Indeed, and only the firmware knows that in general, hence it kinda is a problem without. :) > The information with which to initialise a card (any card) properly > will likely be viewed and handled as a business secret, and remain > proprietary. I don't think that's the point - the information probably isn't all that secret or valuable. I think they just want to be able to arbitrarily change hardware details without having to worry about all the drivers out there. > I have no idea if Nvidia, Matrox or 3DFX are any better in this respect. I doubt it. If initialisation from scratch is more feasible with cards from some other vendors it's probably due to less variation of the hardware. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
