On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Robert Schiele wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 04:36:22PM +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote: > > > > There are no specs, so they cannot be published. > > > > Release cycles are too fast, there is no documentation even within ATI > > or NVIDIA. > > You want to tell me that the driver developers at these companies work with > the trial-and-error method? --- Well, at least that would explain the quality > of their drivers...
Yes, actually, Matthias is exactly right. The graphics hardware industry is in a miserable state for exactly this reason: they *can't* collaborate. Their only reason for being in business is to sell hardware, and to sell that hardware they must have value-add. And since it's hard to produce *real* value-add, they instead play silly games with drivers. Which is why Intel's move into this space is so important. They know that, in this case, open source *is* the value-add. A good article on this topic: http://news.com.com/Intel+aims+for+open-source+graphics+advantage/2100-7344_3-6103941.html --g ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors ------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
