On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 20:17:44 +0100 José Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?"...
Yeah. Hmm.. if Matrox decides to be more open this time, it'd be great - wasn't there a binary-only library involved with the G400? If Matrox had a reasonably priced card, I would consider buying it to develop something for it. I hate my TNT2 and nVidia's binary-only crap. > > > 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. Well, I guess I'm willing to be a volunteer here... much as this IS sticking my neck out. The Matrox sounds interesting; shouldn't be too expensive. I don't have a fast enough machine to warrant a very expensive video card. > 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... That kind of bugs me as well. Not that I'm not part of it *grin*... nonetheless, jose, I appreciate your work on the mach64 -- there is now what I would say is decent hardware OpenGL support on it. Now, I'd love to see the 2D engine running too... *grin*. Could you tell me what's entailed to get that going? David Bronaugh > 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 _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
