Gregory writes: > I think we need an open system first, and everything else be damned. > > For now. > > But you can't have everything to start, you need to reach a goal, and > those goals have to be small and well defined.
So how much interest is there in my idea of a graphics card with a framebuffer and a socket to optionally add the future gpu? Can we build one with existing off the shelf parts (that have datasheets)? The idea is to get a FLOSS-friendly graphics card available as soon as possible. Many people would find that it is fast enough. Recent CPUs have a lot of extra "cores" looking for something to do. Some of us remember when core was memory. :-) From slashdot: "The biggest thing E17 brings to the table is universal compositing. This means you can use a composited desktop without any GPU acceleration at all, and use it nicely. We don't rely on software fallback implementations of OpenGL. We literally have a specific software engine that is so fast that some developers spent weeks using it accidentally, not realizing they had software compositing on their setup." Those who want/need the gpu would still have to wait for the chip, but as soon as the chip is ready the boards for it would already exist, amd the non-gpu portions of the software would already be written and debugged. So the gpu users get theirs faster too. win-win! _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
