Lourens Veen wrote:
On Sunday 13 August 2006 13:31, Rogelio Serrano wrote:
There is really no change at all. At least as far as current ATI
development is concerned. ATI can start developing a less encumbered
board in the far future though. Did the IP owners of the technology
ATI is using changed their minds?
What about the theory that the ATI driver writers are working off of
prototype hardware, hardware design documents, and emails from the
hardware guys, that is, that there _is_ no documentation to be made
public.
Obviously, there is internal documentation that is complete.
Now, AMD creates x86 processors, and the x86 instruction set changes
once every couple of years when some new instructions are added.
Graphics cards are evolving much more quickly. I wonder if AMD will be
willing to spend the resources to publish a new set of documentation
for three products every 6-8 months, to serve a platform that is a
niche market for 3D (obviously a chicken-and-egg problem).
They do it with their CPU chips.
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JRT
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