This proposal comes up periodically on this and other xfree lists, but never really goes anywhere. Why not raise money from the open source community to fund open source driver development? everything from revamping X (ie, speeding up the development of 5.0 features) to adding a new Xfree86 3D driver. Not only would this add features we want, it would also show HW companies that people don't just care about having drivers, they want OPEN SOURCE. They care enough to donate money over and above the cost of the hardware to to get open source drivers. I'd be willing to take the initiative to get something like this started. Just as an example, Blender raised over $100,000 in just 7 weeks to buy the rights to the source code. For example we could start with r300 support and move on to other projects as money and interest permit. New projects could be put to a vote. What would be a reasonable cost estimate for something like that? $50,000? smaller projects may cost less...
Thoughts? Some features of interest: - r300 3D support - crtc2 support for i830/45, trident, smi, savage - 3d support for other chipsets - translucent windows - dynamic reconfiguring - tv out on more chipsets - HW accelerated indirect rendering - new opengl extensions __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
