John Sullivan wrote: > The Free Software Foundation had listed http://r300.sf.net/ as a "High > Priority > Project". We recognize that the lack of 3D video drivers for their specific > hardware is one of the primary obstacles preventing people from running > entirely free systems. > > The development status and location of that project has changed, and we would > like to update our recommendation. > > We are interested in ideas for how we can help contribute to the project's > development (and to the overall goals of performing 3D video drivers for free > software operating systems). > > I'd like to hear any suggestions or feedback that the developers on the list > have for what could be done. >
The FSF may be in a better position to lobby ATI / AMD to release more documentation, particularly for the cards which are completely unsupported, such as the Xpress cards. I'm quite satisfied with the progress being made on my particular card ( r300-based, Mobility X700 - it works great ). However without the ability to support later Radeon cards, a decent portion of future ( and some current ) users will be forced to use ATI's binary drivers. I'd therefore concentrate on these completely unsupported cards ( I believe initialisation of the memory controller is basically the only problem ). I've read on the unofficial ATI Linux forums that some guy who has access to more info under NDA has made patches to add support for these cards, but is being prevented from releasing them by ATI. Just a thought. I'm only a DRI user ... Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
