You only need to remember the infamous Pentium division bug of the mid-nineties. Peer review isn't optional - at least if one wants quality.
Wesley Parish On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:40, Timothy Miller wrote: > An anonymous reader pointed out that it was inappropriate of me to say > that the S3 rep was "full of it". What that gentleman said is > correct. It would be better to say that the whole INDUSTRY is full of > it. If they're all afraid to release specs, that'll only make it > easier for this project to succeed and catch up with them. > > On 1/8/06, Timothy Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/8/06, Lourens Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There's an article over at Linux Today > > > (http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2006010701126NWEV) with the > > > following interesting tidbit: > > > > > > "I talked to one of [S3's] reps (who gave the impression of being > > > fairly senior in the company), and he cast some interesting insight > > > into the > > > > whole > > > > > Linux graphics driver issue. According to him, it's not an issue of > > > > revealing > > > > > cool high end features to the competition that is keeping them from > > > > releasing > > > > > the high-performance 3D drivers into the kernel. It's that the drivers > > > > will > > > > > reveal flaws in the hardware that could be used against them by their > > > competitors." > > > > > > Could be interesting marketing for Traversal. "Our hardware is so good, > > > > we > > > > > actually dare tell you about its flaws" :-) > > > > I think he's full of it. Every chip ever made has flaws, and there > > are often elaborate things you have to do to work around them in > > software. Not to say that any hardware vendor is above being a > > hypocrite, but that's exactly what it would be. Ever looked at the > > ALSA drivers in Linux? The reason it took so long to get sound out of > > a good number of different chipsets implementing AC97 is that they all > > had different bugs to work around. Every Intel processor has bugs; > > they just have the ability to upload microcode patches to work around > > them. > > > > This is all very silly. We're going to have bugs. Even after > > extensive testing in FPGA, something is going to require at least a > > software workaround. And that's just life. > > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
