Hello Rubén, Is there any update on this matter?
I am an ATi user, and wasn't aware that I lost my 3D accel in linux-libre. Regards On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Rubén Rodríguez Pérez <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Someone at this forum said that this parser can be avoided via a (less > >> powerfull) MMIO method, thus providing 3D support for ATI cards in the > >> linux-libre kernel, which would be great. I'll ask this person about it. > > > > Hmm, interesting, I hadn't realized that. This would indeed be awesome. > > > > I've got a response from John Bridgman, AMD's responsible for GNU/Linux > drivers, and it seems that whithout the microcode we can only achieve 2D > (and partial 3D) acceleration, but just for old cards. New cards need the > firmware for both 2D and 3D routines, and even Xv extensions. I'm not sure > if it's worth maintaining a deblobed driver, as those cards are usable > without DRM anyway (with no acceleration). An additional response from > Alex Deucher (xorg.org developer) confirms the technical difficulties. > > Mr Bridgman also ask's me why embedded firmware is ok for us while the > same binary in a file is not. > > I think a correct answer is this: > If the firmware is invisibly burned inside the hardware in a way I cannot > access to it, then I don't need a software license to use my video card. > If I need to get and use a file from a software provider (the card > vendor), then it's fine as long as its license respects my freedom. > > As my response can be taken as GNU's one, I prefer to ask you before > replying to him. > > I think it would be nice to convince them about this issue, is a tiny > piece of code that will render the driver non free, thus forcing us to > give AMD not credit for their freedom efforts. > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-libre mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre >
_______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
