On Saturday 24 February 2007 19:56, Timothy Normand Miller wrote: > These look great! > > Could you post to the list a plain-text dump of the wording so that I > and others can suggest minor editorial changes?
Here you are. I'm going to get some sleep and I'll try to find some time tomorrow to actually comment on it... Lourens The Open-Graphics Project - Building a graphics card - For FLOSS softwares, and operating system - Fully published specs - Drivers that are free software What is OGP ? - A project started by Timothy Miller, from TechSource. - Sustained and developed through contributions - The hardware production is undertaken by Traversal Technology - Traversal Technology is a separate company created by OGP members Mr. Miller and others The Open Graphics Card - A graphics card for FLOSS softwares, and operating system. - 2D graphics performance - OpenGL support - Dual DVI - TV Output - 256 Mb memory - PCI, PCIe The community needs Openly published documentation for the hardware's logical, electrical, and mechanical interfaces Hardware integration into larger systems Techical support during the full service life, regardless of whether the manufacturer is able to do so The freedom to modify and redistribute supporting software as needs evolve The freedom to re-use all volunteer-contributed parts of the design in fully open designs The business needs In order to be interesting to the free software community and OEM vendors such a card should at a minimum meet the following requirements: - Programming interface must be fully documented - No IP encumberment for implementing drivers - Very good 2d graphics performance - Full OpenGL implementation with hardware acceleration - Good support for xv (yuv->rgb, scaling)for video playback - Reasonable price!
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