[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Xavier Bachelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Felipe Reyes wrote: >>> hi, >>> >>> El mar, 08-04-2008 a las 22:49 +0000, Martín Carr escribió: >>>> I am sure you have read this: >>>> http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/04/08/202227.shtml >>> [snip] >>> >>> yeah!, I'm almost happy, because k8m800 chipset will have no support (i >>> hope that will be added in the near future), i think that the openchrome >>> dev team have done an amazing job, so if via will work _with_ the >>> community this driver will grow up faster, especially if the >>> mesa/dri/drm stack gets a unichrome mantainer. >>> >>> Xavier, what do you think about this announcement?, because you said in >>> some mail the incapacity of work with the community (like release .rar >>> files) >>> >> Making an announcement is one thing, working with the community and by the >> community rules, especially given their past history, is another. >> It's not the >> first time VIA make such an announcement. Afaik, they did not contact anyone >> from the X community before making it. That said, I'll give them the >> benefit of >> the doubt, but I'll trust them when I see some facts, not some marketing hot >> air. I certainly want to believe this time will be the good one, but talk is >> cheap... > > Hopefully this time they will get it right. At least due to the fact > that now intel and amd are releasing specs, they should not fear so > much people "robbing" their IP... But they need to have more integration > with Xorg and/or openchrome people. > Indeed, this the main reason why the VIA provided driver is a disaster. They are not integrating with anything. They fix bug and do some development on their side and never send a patch upstream...
> I worked recently with a OEM for a "olpc like" computer that has VX800 > chipset, and only after almost 2 month telling that it was not working, > we managed to have someone from VIA in the "mail loop". > Then more one month with their binary only driver, trying all options > from the the latest sources available at www.viaarena.com with > no success. I even did some experiments dumping and hacking the vga > video bios... > The final solution was an xorg.conf option added to their latest binary > only driver, and they telling us to not look at the sources from viaarena > because it is outdated :-) > You had a painful experience of working with VIA under a commercial contract. Now thing about doing the same when you do not have a contract with them... We are trying to write a proposal to VIA to help smoothen the relationship with the community. Would you like to participate and send us your ideas ? Regards, Xavier _______________________________________________ openchrome-users mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-users Main page: http://www.openchrome.org Wiki: http://wiki.openchrome.org User Forum: http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=1
