Rogelio Serrano wrote:
On 3/22/06, James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Well not really. The docs they released are not enough.
Intel claims that they provide complete documentation. VIA isn't that
clear about releasing a data sheet. They seem to want an NDA which I
have no problem with since I have no interest in reverse engineering
their chips.
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. :-)
You actually believe they will release all documentation for IP they do not own?
All I want is the full documentation for the chip. There is already an
open source driver for Intel. The VIA driver is only for a frame buffer.
This will never happen. I dont think ATI and NVidia is interested in
bigger investment in linux. Its just not a big enough market for them.
The Linux market isn't asking them for an investment. What we have been
asking for is the full documentation of the chips. Note that graphics
chips are an anomaly here. All other chips I know of have full
documentation available.
The law guarantees that they cannot go into the open source market in
a big way.
Explain this please!
I suspect that the problem is that they don't have a patent. They can
copyright the drivers and copyright the chip, but that doesn't prevent
reverse engineering of the chip, or making a clean room clone.
--
JRT
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