Re: [Dri-devel] No Subject

2001-09-27 Thread Michael Lincoln
David Dawes wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:37:38PM +0200, Alexander Stohr wrote: From: Angel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] In a solution to this i decided to upgrade to the DRI-CVS, however when making World it ends with the following error. /usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot find

[Dri-devel] Radeon 8500, what's the plan?

2001-09-27 Thread Dacobi Coding
Hello people! I was just wondering, what's the plan regarding Radeon 8500 DRI support? I been hearing rumors about ATI switching to a unified driver structure much like Nvidia's. Can anyone verify wether this is true or not, and if it is true, how it will affect the DRI project?

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500, what's the plan?

2001-09-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Dacobi Coding wrote: Hello people! I was just wondering, what's the plan regarding Radeon 8500 DRI support? I been hearing rumors about ATI switching to a unified driver structure much like Nvidia's. Can anyone verify wether this is true or not, and if it is true,

[Dri-devel] Re: Dri-devel XFree86 Version 4.1.99.1 (DRI trunk) - revisited

2001-09-27 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Frank Jacobberger wrote: /* * The following changes are required in order to disable gcc's new * 'merge-constants' optimization, because the XFree86 module loader is not * yet aware of the new ELF sections it produces, and will cause module * loading to fail. -

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500, what's the plan?

2001-09-27 Thread Dacobi Coding
On Thursday 27 September 2001 19:55, you wrote: Dacobi Coding wrote: Hello people! ... Not to say that ATI won't switch to a binary-only driver as well, but anyway... But are they planing to, or have they allready releaced the specs for the new Radeon chips? And I mean full specs complete

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500, what's the plan?

2001-09-27 Thread Gareth Hughes
Dacobi Coding wrote: But are they planing to, or have they allready releaced the specs for the new Radeon chips? And I mean full specs complete with V/P Shaders and TL? Did they ever release specs for the original Radeon? No. One would guess the same policy will apply in this case as

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500, what's the plan?

2001-09-27 Thread David Johnson
From: Gareth Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500, what's the plan? Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:05:13 -0700 Dacobi Coding wrote: But are they planing to, or have they allready releaced the specs for the new

Re: [Dri-devel] DRI CVS compile problems finding X libs

2001-09-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
Simon Fowler wrote: About a month or two ago the DRI cvs tree was pruned a lot, so that it only really has the code needed for building the xserver and a few libs that need modifications from the base XFree86 4.x install - this is what's causing the problem. Actually, I think the problem is

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500, what's the plan?

2001-09-27 Thread Dacobi Coding
On Thursday 27 September 2001 21:05, you wrote: Dacobi Coding wrote: But are they planing to, or have they allready releaced the specs for the new Radeon chips? And I mean full specs complete with V/P Shaders and TL? Did they ever release specs for the original Radeon? No. One would

RE: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500, what's the plan?

2001-09-27 Thread Daniel Vogel
They did release specs (under NDA) to many people (including yourself through PI/VA Linux). Keep in mind that ATI was paying VA Linux to develop Radeon Linux drivers at the time. - Daniel Vogel, Programmer, Epic Games Inc. ___ Dri-devel mailing

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500, what's the plan?

2001-09-27 Thread David Johnson
From: Gareth Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500, what's the plan? Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:56:53 -0700 David Johnson wrote: They did release specs (under NDA) to many people (including yourself through

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500, what's the plan?

2001-09-27 Thread Dacobi Coding
On Thursday 27 September 2001 21:56, you wrote: David Johnson wrote: They did release specs (under NDA) to many people (including yourself through PI/VA Linux). Sure, but not to people in the general open source community, and with the demise of PI/VA, I would say the chances of a driver

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500, what's the plan?

2001-09-27 Thread Peter Surda
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:19:46PM +, David Johnson wrote: Sure, that is a valid point but we need to remember that in the past ATI has not been adverse to supporting open source drivers or to releasing specs to qualified people. They are very friendly actually. They provided me

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500, what's the plan?

2001-09-27 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Peter Surda wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 08:19:46PM +, David Johnson wrote: Sure, that is a valid point but we need to remember that in the past ATI has not been adverse to supporting open source drivers or to releasing specs to qualified people.