On 2 Mar 2003, Antonino Daplas wrote: >> Yes, it is. But you missed my point. The point being that code >> exists and nobody is hacking on it. I'm not *blaming* anyone. >> Volunteers work on what volunteers are interested in working on. >> That's obviously not Glide3. Point is, there is code and docs >> that have been available to people that have not seen much >> contributions at all except by funded development. Look at the >> Intel i8x0 driver for example. The Intel specs are publically >> available, and Intel funds development of the driver. The >> hardware is readily available too. Yet there is not any major >> contributions to the code at all other than what is produced by >> funded development. >> > >I think the Intel 8x0 is also a bad example. Precisely because the >XFree86 and DRI drivers are funded by Intel that volunteer work shifts >to other areas (fbdev, DirectFB). Secondly, these old Intel chipsets >are not a natural choice for doing 3D (70-100 fbs with glxgears :-). Not >worth concentrating on with regards to 3D.
Intel i845/i852/i855/i865 are not "old" chipsets. The latter 3 are brand new. >I'm not advocating open sourcing hardware specs. If manufacturers do, >that's excellent. If they don't, I respect that decision. I agree with that mostly. I advocate opening hardware specs, either completely, or at least under some form of NDA to developers willing, able, and capable of working on support. If companies don't however, that is their choice of course, and to some degree I can also respect that. Their hardware may possibly however not be supported at all by open source operating systems, or may be supported poorly. Either way, there are always alternative hardware for consumers to choose from. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
