On 02/11/2008, Timothy Normand Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Josephblack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> 2008/11/1 Timothy Normand Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: snip 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.
>>snip. this may attract a bit more interest >> from potential customers snip 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. This sounds good. The first 'release' is not far... >> 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. snip We want to build up for a serious show say in OSCON - two years? And we want potential customers thinking about and even planning to come to see it. I would suggest spreading it out, but with care so that each release is a milestone. i.e. to say 0.5 with something working well - something a potential customer could actually try on the card. This could mean we delay exciting releases a little, but then people can reliably see it working. As for slashdot, before we go to them, this time we have the opportunity to review the last one and be ready. JHB _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
