RE: [Dri-devel] SGI transfers 3D graphics patents to MS

2002-01-18 Thread Gareth Hughes
> I think microsoft is trying to kill DRI. It is a big threat > to all their products. If the open source community can offer > good 3d graphics at low cost then their system will suffer a > good loss in market share. Ummm, somehow I don't think so... The DRI is encompassed by OpenGL (as a wh

RE: [Dri-devel] Rebuttal on "DRM/DRI porting guide?" posts

2002-01-18 Thread David Johnson
>Another interesting point is that you have your own fork of the > XFree tree. This further limits the input into the design by > eliminating all the qualified X developers without direct rendering > interest from the discussion. They all live/work on the XFree lists > and don't watch

RE: [Dri-devel] Rebuttal on "DRM/DRI porting guide?" posts

2002-01-18 Thread Sottek, Matthew J
I would like to give another perspective on this conversation, but let me first say that I am speaking for my personal views and not representing the company I work for. It is easy for people to discount complaints when they come in such a passionate manner. Everyone should keep in mind that rar

[Dri-devel] Creating better documentation

2002-01-18 Thread David Johnson
I think the first thing we need to do is inventory and evaluate all existing documentation. It is not only important to determine what documentation exists but also how relevent it is and whether it needs to be updated or removed from the website. Once we figure out what we have we can then

[Dri-devel] dri-devel mailing list archive

2002-01-18 Thread Jose Fonseca
Besides some unnecessary personal comments I think that some good ideas came out of the "DRM/DRI porting guide?" thread. I found especially interesting the idea of the mailing list archive digging from Daryll Strauss and the idea of Ian Romanick to use an automatic documentation system from sourc

Re: [Dri-devel] Rebuttal on "DRM/DRI porting guide?" posts

2002-01-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 07:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As far as documentation when you started learning X 10 years ago, this is > what I have to say: > > 1) only 10 years ago? I thought you found XFree86, but what about before? > X11 was already out there, no ? No matter... > > 2) How many X

Re: [Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide?

2002-01-18 Thread Jens Owen
Abraham vd Merwe wrote: > > Hi Jens! > > > > > Sure, Monday at 5pm pacific time works for me. We'll see how many > > > > questions do show up. If nothing else, we can catch up with the old > > > > team :-) > > > > > > Could we perhaps change this. All of us scattered around the middle of earth

Re: [Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide?

2002-01-18 Thread Abraham vd Merwe
Hi Jens! > > > Sure, Monday at 5pm pacific time works for me. We'll see how many > > > questions do show up. If nothing else, we can catch up with the old > > > team :-) > > > > Could we perhaps change this. All of us scattered around the middle of earth > > (europe, south africa, etc.) strike

Re: [Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide?

2002-01-18 Thread Jens Owen
Abraham vd Merwe wrote: > > Hi Jens! > > > > > So, the question is how to we get that process going. As a suggestion, > > > > maybe > > > > a weekly IRC meeting would help where new developers can ask the experts, > > > > and > > > > each other, questions about DRI, XFree or 3D graphics. I am

Re: [Dri-devel] DRM/DRI porting guide?

2002-01-18 Thread Abraham vd Merwe
Hi Jens! > > > So, the question is how to we get that process going. As a suggestion, > > > maybe > > > a weekly IRC meeting would help where new developers can ask the experts, > > > and > > > each other, questions about DRI, XFree or 3D graphics. I am sure it would > > > be > > > much easier