On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Josephblack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/1 Timothy Normand Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Howard called me up today to tell me that he got video working. >> Analog is working fine. Digital will take another man day, > snip >> This means VGA emulation is largely left to writing HQ microcode and >> BIOS and any FPGA bugs we encounter along the way. > > this is significant news. As soon as this has come together a bit > more, lets list the annoucement on the wiki. The project has started > to change. It is no longer a card that shows promise, it is now a > graphics development card. As this may attract a bit more interest > from potential customers too, perhaps we can offer some very > rudimentary code examples of talking to the card/memory etc. How much > needs doing before we make a noise about it?
Well, all of the code to do this is in our SVN. One thing we should do is tarball up the critical pieces and call it a "release" with a version number and everything. I'm sure a bit more debugging is necessary before we can make an 0.5 release (can do graphics, but not VGA). So as for code examples, it's much better than rudimentary. > > And once we have the latest schematic files posted I wonder if we > would be correct to say this is the first fully Open Source VGA > capable graphics development card in the world endorsed by the Open > Hardware Foundation? Somewhere in there might be a press release or a > slashdot article. It definitely is exactly how you describe it! And yes, slashdot would pick it up. Either we should hit them hard once, or we should spread it out. Release 0.5 would be without VGA, but it's something that WORKS. 1.0 would have VGA working. That should get another announcement. And before all that, perhaps we can announce that it's working. -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
