That's a really nice description! If there's a way to add a longer description to sourceforge later, I would like to use your text.
In the mean time, I also need something that fits into 255 character. On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 00:34:51 -0500, Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Timothy, > > On Monday 31 January 2005 19:47, Timothy Miller wrote: > > I was talking about the public description. > > I rewrote your October lkml announcement from point form to text and > added something about the 3D capability. Sorry about the run-on > sentences and other defects. It came out as basically a description of > the card, but how else would you describe a driver project? > > "This project develops driver software and video BIOS firmware for the > Open Graphics Card designed by Timothy Miller of Tech Source Inc. The > Open Graphics Card provides VGA text and accelerated 2D and 3D > graphics. It supports OpenGL 1.3 with various ARB extensions. > Uniquely, it features fully open x86 BIOS/OpenBoot/OpenFirmware code > and DRI drivers, all under GPL or BSD licenses. A 2D accelerated X11 > module is available under the MIT license. The Open Graphics Card has > a flashable PROM so that boot code can be developed for other > platforms, so it can be used as console on any platform that can take a > PCI, AGP, or PCI-Express card. Schematics for the circuit board are > freely downloadable. The card uses a FPGA-based graphics engine, so it > is reprogrammable at the logic level. Instructions on reprogramming > the FPGA are available, meaning this card logic is fully hackable. > Tech Source may even release the Verilog code for the card logic if the > card is discontinued. Tech Source actively supports the open source > community in this driver development project." > > Regards, > > Daniel > _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
