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. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
