Am Freitag, 26. M�rz 2004 14:31 schrieb Keith Whitwell:
> Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> > There's a discussion currently on the rage3d.com linux forum as to
> > whether or not the DRI is good enough for 3D gaming. One particular
> > individual has claimed that the reason why the FireGL drivers (which use
> > the DRI) have worse performance than the nVidia drivrs are because the
> > FireGL drivers use the DRI. He argues that since the DRI 3D drivers
> > implement as much of the 3D pipeline as possible in userspace, and the
> > nVidia driver presumably implements more in kernel space (due to their 2
> > MB kernel module size), the DRI has a lot more expensive context
> > switches.
> >
> > I know very little about video driver programming, so I'm curious if
> > anyone who can is willing to comment and possibly refute his claims?
>
> The dri makes no specification where you put anything. I doubt very much
> that nvidia has any significant part of the pipeline in kernel space.
> That's what the videocard is for.
I think nVidia use _all_ of there hardware, yet...
And there is NO native 3D driver from ATI for Rage.
So...
Greetings,
Dieter
BTW Have in mind, that _we_ do not have any change to use _all_ of the ATI
hardware, too8-(((
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