On 2002.04.18 19:12 Smitty wrote: > ... > > So up to five new GPU's / architectures which leads to the obvious > question(s) ... >
With the inhuman effort that it will be to support so many new GPUs the obvious question I was expecting to read was "How can I help?"... > Or is this all completely off the radar screen at the moment? > I really don't know the answers to your questions. I just want to point out that if people just understood the amount of effort that is to pull out an complete driver they would know that the time it takes depends of either a strong support for the vendor, or the number of volunteers working on it. So while people just keep asking when is foo or bar ready, but don't do much about it, there will be several chips that will never get supported due to this huge difference between the fast developement of this techonology and the limited oopen-source manpower allocated to DRI... > ... > > cheers > Liam > > P.S this had better not degenerate into another (near) flame fest > carrying on about deferred / software / direct (emidiate) rendering, > where people start mixing up their hardware concepts. <g> > Well, I hope this degenerates in a lot of voluteers... José Fonseca _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
