Hi Timothy, On Tuesday 03 May 2005 18:26, Timothy Miller wrote: > Tech Source is now officially no longer involved in the OGP. > Arrangements with Tech Source are being finalized that remove any > potential IP issues. We are, therefore, pushing forward unfettered, > except for the fact that it isn't our day job. The upside of this is > that we have more flexibility and freedom in the design.
The gold of the project is in the experienced engineers who started it, and as I understand it, you are very much still committed. It would have been nice if Tech Source were willing to provide resources and possibly some branding to the project, but oh well. We do have a large and vibrant community to support us, some portion of which has already shown willingness to buy in Now we have the opportunity to make the project even more attractive to the community. We can put it simply: "would you pre-order if the whole thing is GPL?". My feeling is that they will. I will keep beating on my usual theme: make the card as cheap as possible. The ASIC version is still in the cards, but obviously the FPGA now has to stand on its own as a product. Which is what I always wanted. I am not sure why you think it would be worth expending any effort on a 3S1500 version. That part is too small to implement our fixed function 3D pipeline. On the other hand, the 3S4000 is large enough not only to implement the fixed function pipeline, but to do some preliminary work on fragment shading. What we should do is convince Xilinx to provide the free webpack for the 3S4000. There is no technical obstacle. My sense is, that will not be awfully hard to achieve. Who knows, we might even be able to convince Xilinx to partially sponsor the project, given an end result that is GPL. This is nothing but good karma for all concerned. 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)
