Roland Nagtegaal wrote:
>
> 10 people working fulltime on reverse engineering
> of newly arriving chipsets: [snip]
>
> Estimated time per chipset for this: 4 man months.
> (And less for newer versions of the same chipset,
> like geforce2 -> geforce3)
>
> 10 people working on writing generalized drivers
> implementing a 3D graphics pipeline [snip]
>
> Estimated time for this: 2 man months per driver.
You are dreaming.
1) Take another look at the differences between the GF2 and GF3
architectures (since you quote this specifically).
2) Read "The Mythical Man Month" by Fred Brooks.
Do you honestly think you could find even *one* person in the open source
community with the skills to reverse engineer a modern graphics processor?
-- Gareth
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