You may recall the recent note about <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story/21299/LinuxFund_OGP_Supply_Developers_with_Open_Graphics_Cards";>Linux Fund getting donations to supply developers with OGD1 boards</a>. (OGD1 is a what you might call an "open source graphics card," with all designs, documentation and source code available under Free Software licenses. Technically, however, OGD1 is an FPGA-based prototyping platform with memory and video encoders on it. See the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_graphics_project";>wikipedia article</a>.) Since then, the FSF got involved and is <a href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/help-the-open-graphics-project";>asking for volunteers to help with the OGP wiki</a>. The OGP had shown OGD1 driving a graphics display back in 2007 at OSCON. And now, the OGP has just <a href="http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki-index.php?page=HomePage";>announced</a> technical success with the rather difficult challenge of emulating legacy VGA text mode. They even put up a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAtVEqNrT3w";>video on YouTube</a> of a display, driven by OGD1, showing a PC booting into Gentoo.
-- 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)
