On 11/11/2007, Timothy Normand Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=18902 > > I haven't read enough to know how far along they are, if they have a > working board, where they got their PCI controller from, etc. > > -- > Timothy Normand Miller
I am guessing that would be Michael - was that his post in the comments?snip: the goal of this project isn't to compete with anything, we just want to get something /working/. After we've gained experience with this (and helped more people getting their hands on a usable platform) and support VGA, we're going for driver development and 2D basics. After that, well, hopefully we can merge with OGP and go for the bigger stuff. snip I guess more developers getting experience in hardware is always a plus. Looking at the OSNEWS comment about OGP moving slowly does not realize the amount of work going behind the scenes, much without recognition. a bit like the wine guys - they have been quiet lately but working hard toward release 1.0 and it may surprise people how far they have come. All the ground work builds a good foundation for later. off the top of my head: - OHF is formed. It is working away supporting Open Hardware. - Traversal is working long hours, all behind the scenes. We will soon see results. - we have an initial library of verilog, that has an interesting potential to change things. Thanks to the list we are nearly finished finalizing a few things there. OHF has committed to supporting it - Open Source developers willing and motivated have started to learn verilog and writing tests. - some have been looking at some options for helping developers with verilog, but nothing ready to bring to the attention of list yet. <yes, sorry - cryptic but involved> - with a final bom we have started documenting the parts for the card - some interesting detail there. Terry has done nice graphics and detective work there. More help would be welcome as we now have links to some of the older, more open docs. Work is ongoing reducing dependencies. Write down facts that we need to know, but carefully respect copyright issues. If this is too hard for you, see below for an easier task. http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki-index.php?page=OGD1+components+guide - we are working toward more documentation - anyone with eyes can help. find a pdf for one of the 74 series chips and put a link to it on the respective page. Add a truth table on the page for each chip - you will learn a bit about hardware and reading the docs and play a part in open hardware.. Then you may find you are more equipped to help wth the documentation effort. above http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki-index.php?page=HDL_Resources - we are.. hmm that can wait for later ;-P What has been done so far is a fair bit - want to help? I guess we now know some of the topics in the next newsletter at the end of the month.. ;-) jb _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
