On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 08:44 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Paul Cutler <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think Alberto's idea of reaching out to nVidia is a great > idea - if we can clearly communicate our needs to them it > can't hurt to ask. I'd be willing to help reach out to them > if needed. > > Maybe I missed it but why are we only concentrating on Nvidia? Are > ATI graphics cards okay vis-a-vis xrand support and others on free > drivers? What about Intel? The foundation should probably take a > holistic approach to this issue if we want a uniform experience for > GNOME 3. We're generally in much closer contact with the open source driver developers already. They hang out on the same IRC channels, work for the same companies already. There's not really any need for formal contacts there. And the open source drivers generally share much more code and already work pretty consistently - e.g., none of the open source drivers has their own incompatible configuration tool. So, what we want from open source drivers is simply for them to be fast and bug-free when running the shell. But for any sort of outreach to driver developers, whether open source or closed source, you want to be very concrete. This is why getting quantifiable performance numbers is a top priority of mine at the moment. - Owen _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
