RE: User sponsored drivers

2003-07-16 Thread Rob Taylor
Surely it'd be less difficult nowadays, with the job market in its current state? Rob On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Alex Deucher wrote: This proposal comes up periodically on this and other xfree lists, but never really goes anywhere. Why not raise money from the open source community to fund

Re: User sponsored drivers

2003-07-16 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Mark Vojkovich wrote: It is very difficult to convert money into code. It's probably easier to raise the money than it is to find a way to convert that into code. Not exactly a driver, but I was under the impression that remote GLX support (ie hardware accelerated 3D

Re: User sponsored drivers

2003-07-16 Thread Alex Deucher
What about tungsten graphics or Providenza Boekelheide, Inc. (Tim Robert's company? Plus I'm sure there are other small development companies that would be interested. Alex --- Mark Vojkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Alex Deucher wrote: This proposal comes up

Re: User sponsored drivers

2003-07-16 Thread Alex Deucher
Support for HW accelerated indirect rendering is just a matter of restructuring some library interfaces so that GLX commands can get decoded and sent to the hardware rather than the sw renderer. It's in the pipeline for future development by the DRI folks, but if it were sponsored, it might

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: User sponsored drivers

2003-07-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2003-07-16 at 15:08, Alex Deucher wrote: Support for HW accelerated indirect rendering is just a matter of restructuring some library interfaces so that GLX commands can get decoded and sent to the hardware rather than the sw renderer. It's in the pipeline for future development by

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: User sponsored drivers

2003-07-16 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:36:33PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: On Mer, 2003-07-16 at 15:08, Alex Deucher wrote: Support for HW accelerated indirect rendering is just a matter of restructuring some library interfaces so that GLX commands can get decoded and sent to the hardware rather than the sw

User sponsored drivers

2003-07-15 Thread Alex Deucher
This proposal comes up periodically on this and other xfree lists, but never really goes anywhere. Why not raise money from the open source community to fund open source driver development? everything from revamping X (ie, speeding up the development of 5.0 features) to adding a new Xfree86 3D

Re: [Dri-devel] User sponsored drivers

2003-07-15 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
This sounds like a great idea indeed. There are many questions, I'm sure. One that comes to mind is: *Who* would be able to vote? Luis On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Alex Deucher wrote: This proposal comes up periodically on this and other xfree lists, but never really goes anywhere. Why not

Re: User sponsored drivers

2003-07-15 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Alex Deucher wrote: This proposal comes up periodically on this and other xfree lists, but never really goes anywhere. Why not raise money from the open source community to fund open source driver development? It is very difficult to convert money into code. It's