Will the drivers for both current and future chips be open source? What sort of feature set will the drivers support (2D, 3D, video, multi-head, etc.)? Will databooks be available to developers?
Thanks, Alex --- "Chen Yukun (Jade)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now in XGI, the unit from Trident will focus on Notebook market and > the one > seperated from Sis will focus on Desktop. Two series of chip will > both be > supported currently. But from the next chip , two chips will be > merged into > one. The h/w will be redesigned and all the driver will be re-coded. > > Also, both trident and Sis have the linux driver, which is release > with > Linux OS, for almost all their own chips. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Deucher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 5:30 PM > To: Thomas Winischhofer; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Alex Deucher; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] XGI? > > > I wonder how the new company will be with respect to giving out > datasheets? like sis or like trident? > > Alex > > --- Thomas Winischhofer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Russ Dill wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 11:03, Alex Deucher wrote: > > > > > >>Is anyone on either of these lists familiar with XGI? It seems > to > > be a > > >>new GPU manufacturer consisting of a merger of Trident and the > SiS > > >>graphics division. > > >> > > >>here's their website: > > >>http://www.xgitech.com/index.htm > > >> > > >>They have some interesting products products (dual GPU solution). > > > Some > > >>of their other stuff looks similar to existing SiS and trident > > >>products. They mention linux support, but I see no links to > > drivers > > >>anywhere. does anyone know anymore about this company? Are they > > >>writing xfree drivers or with any existing drivers work with > these > > >>chips? SiS has has a bad record of giving out specs on it's > newer > > >>chips; trident I guess has been a little bit better. > > > > I guess this company will do it like SiS did in the past: Make the > > chips, but leave the integration into boards to other > manufacturers. > > (The "embedded-and-customized"-hell will never end...) > > > > My bet would be that ECS and MSI will be among the first to design > > boards for these chips. > > > > > SiS spins off their 3D buisness and it gets named Xabre > > > Trident buys/merges, whatever with Xabre, and the new company is > > named > > > XGI > > > I think they it became official on the 13 or 14th, don't > remember. > > So > > > for now, its just the Xabre products and the trident products > > > (cyberblade2, etc). > > > > The "Volari"'s specs look indeed like the Xabre's, except for that > > "Cipher" video processor and the dual-GPU option. Apart from this > > (and > > 3D, of course), these chips should be well supported by the current > > SiS > > driver (well, as soon as I get the PCI IDs) > > > > Thomas > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- 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
