On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 07:11, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On 2 Mar 2003, Antonino Daplas wrote:
> > 
> > AFAIK, there are at least 2 versions of the i810 framebuffer driver
> > publicly available, both of which are not possible without the public
> > docs.
> 
> I don't think that answers Mike's criticism that open-source developers 
> don't tend to work on DRI.
> 
> And I think he's right. The reason you find open-source people working on 
> fbdev and mplayer etc is because those tend to be _easier_ projects to get 
> into. 
> 

Don't get me wrong, I completely agree with Mike when he said that, to
paraphrase,  "hundreds will not flock to code for DRM except for a stout
few". I just meant that nobody is contributing to i810 development
because it is a "dead-end" chipset for DRI.  However, I still believe
enough in open source that if Intel did not provide drivers for them,
nor pay a coder to do it, someone in the multitude will.  

Tony



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