[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Okay, sorry, I just had to laugh. Not your fault, I admit that. You are as innocent >as I used to be. > > Here's the deal bro: > > [RANT MODE ON] > > [...] > > [RANT MODE OFF] > > Finale: > > Anyone: please think about it before (if) you respond to this email. If I am wrong >in something of course I would like to hear it, but my overall feeling of >disappointment in the DRI project is not gonna change easily. If you want to respond, >only do it with DRI devel. docs. Otherwise you are probably wasting your and my time.
OK, I'm going to waste some of your time - I don't have any new DRI docs for you. You're right that the DRI docs are out of date, there's no skeleton/ example driver, the existing drivers aren't documented very well, and the DRI authors are no longer available. Even before VA Linux laid-off everyone we were losing momentum on the DRI project because the engineers had to work on other projects that generated revenue. After everyone was laid-off we all went in different directions. I think I'm one of the few who still reads this list. Most of the DRI authors simply have _no_ time to work on the DRI project. I have time to read the list, but really nothing more. My spare time is occupied with developing Mesa. I often wish there were more hours in a day so I could do more, but there aren't and I can't. Back when we were actively writing the DRI drivers we were working our asses off. Gareth, for example, was routinely working 80+ hours per week on this stuff. We thought it was more important to invest our time in the drivers and infrastructure code than writing/updating design documents. The DRI is very complicated and takes a lot of time to understand. We didn't try to make it complicated - that's just the reality of it. The DRI isn't dead though. Keith and Alan have been working on the mesa-4-0-branch to bring Mesa 4.0 (OpenGL 1.3) to the DRI. We at Tungsten Graphics have hopes to develop new DRI drivers. But the top priority is to do the work that pays our bills. Unfortunately, right now that's not the DRI. This explanation probably won't make you feel any better, but that's the way it is. -Brian PS: We should probably give CVS-write privilege to more people who want to contribute patches and such. I think that's a bottleneck right now. Anyone? _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
