On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 22:53 -0500, Timothy Miller wrote:

> > I think this discussion should be moved to the DRI mailing lists and
> > include the DRI and Mesa folks who have been working on those issues for
> > some time now, but then, there is no emergency.
> 
> Nope.  We've got a number of intermediate steps before we're ready for this.

Oh, sure, I don't think there is any emergency in discussing the details
of the memory management right now, but I do think there is a lot of
good experience to be shared there with people who have been working on
Mesa and implementing 3D drivers for other chipsets.

> > BTW. Do you have already some ETA and idea of the price of your FPGA
> > based prototypes ? We may get a couple here in the lab to help with
> > drivers. (The lab is IBM ozlabs, that is mostly the ppc kernel folks)
> 
> No specific ETA.  I'm guessing Andy will have his part by the end of
> the year.  And Howard is working on some things to help Andy.  After
> the end of this quarter, I should also have time to work on the PCI
> core again too.
> 
> Price?  Well, it goes up and down as we price parts.  I think it'll
> end up being priced a bit on the high side at the beginning, but as it
> sells, we'll be able to lower the price a bit.  We had been shooting
> for $500 to $600, but we may have to price it higher, like $700 in
> one-unit volumes, with a discount for larger volumes.  People want an
> answer to this, but no matter what we say, we just don't have enough
> information yet to be sure.  We have guesses about PCB fab, for
> instance, but we could be very wrong, depending on which board house
> is actually able to do it when we need it done.

Ok, thanks.

Ben.


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