Re: [Nouveau] [Mesa3d-dev] [radeonhd] Re: Status of s3tc patent in respect to open-source drivers and workarounds

2010-03-29 Thread Luca Barbieri
Interestingly, the post-trial judge opinion at http://wi.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.%5CFDCT%5CWWI%5C2008%5C20080801_734.WWI.htm/qx contains the following text: Plaintiff’s expert, Dr. Stevenson, testified that the ‘327 patent is directed to “a special purpose hardware

Re: [Nouveau] [Mesa3d-dev] [radeonhd] Re: Status of s3tc patent in respect to open-source drivers and workarounds

2010-03-29 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SpliFF wrote: So to clarify, you're saying a partial implementation (decoder only) isn't an option at all? If you expose an extension it must be complete? See the documentation for glGetCompressedTexImage. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: [Nouveau] [Mesa3d-dev] [radeonhd] Re: Status of s3tc patent in respect to open-source drivers and workarounds

2010-03-29 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephane Marchesin wrote: The core issue is that some people do not want to see this code in mesa in whatever form, because they're afraid of lawsuits. Rumour has it that VIA told them that they would sue. And the same things happened with SGI

Re: [Nouveau] Status of s3tc patent in respect to open-source drivers and workarounds

2010-03-29 Thread SpliFF
On 03/29/10 17:06, Ian Romanick wrote: SpliFF wrote: So to clarify, you're saying a partial implementation (decoder only) isn't an option at all? If you expose an extension it must be complete? See the documentation for glGetCompressedTexImage. That does not appear to imply a run-time

[Nouveau] [Bug 26733] Full-screen XV causes graphics lockup

2010-03-29 Thread bugzilla-daemon
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26733 --- Comment #5 from okias d.ok...@gmail.com 2010-03-29 06:51:18 PST --- Lastest git (nouveau tree). Picture freeze on screen and computer is possible control over ssh. [0.240291] Switching to clocksource hpet [0.282671] Non-volatile

Re: [Nouveau] Status of s3tc patent in respect to open-source drivers and workarounds

2010-03-29 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SpliFF wrote: On 03/29/10 17:06, Ian Romanick wrote: SpliFF wrote: So to clarify, you're saying a partial implementation (decoder only) isn't an option at all? If you expose an extension it must be complete? See the documentation for