Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree? Update to Mesa-3.6/4.0

[Will Newton]

On Friday 14 Sep 2001 6:58 pm, you wrote:

> I think people need to take a step back and have a think about how much
> money it costs to support top-class developers like those work/have worked
> on the DRI.  We're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.  Unless

Definitely. I can't see that ever being a way forward, unless it's in a 
cosource style "price per feature" model. e.g. People club together to raise 
$1000 to pay developer X to implement SLI for the V5. (Obviously there are no 
specs available and so on, so that example is merely an example) 

> the IHVs (or other companies) want to support it, I seriously doubt the
> open-source 3D graphics world will progress much further.  Is the G400/r128
> class of hardware relevant anymore?  That's the last generation to see
> anything approaching full support by open-source drivers.

Chicken + egg.
No specs, no development effort. No visible development effort, no incentive 
to release specs. And the current consolidation of the graphics hardware 
market does us no favours.

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