Timothy Miller wrote:
http://lwn.net/Articles/174615/
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OGC has to compete against the likes of Intel and Via on the low end,
and can't hope to compete against NVIDIA and ATI on the high end.
Well, DUH!
I didn't realize that there were any Intel or VIA based graphics boards.
If there were, we wouldn't need to compete against them since they
provide documentation of their products.
Perhaps an Intel based board would be a good idea since a lot of PCs
don't have a graphics processor built in. It looks like it would be
possible to make a graphics board using an 82945G north bridge chip.
You would need a bus interface chip, a FPGA and an EEPROM. Is there a
market for such a low end open graphics board? Zack Rusin seems to like
the Intel chip. I wonder how well the new "GMA950" will work and if
Intel will make a full 3D driver for it.
But, yes, IIUC we do expect to compete against NVidia and ATI. I don't
know how high end we intend our first product to be, but I presume that
it will be competitive unless NVidia or ATI respond by releasing all of
their documentation to the public. :-)
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JRT
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