On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Kevin Brosius wrote:
> Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > On 30 Jan 2002, Jose Fonseca wrote:
> >
> > > I've decided to add some pertinent comments from Mike Harris regarding
> > > the availability of documentation under NDA to the DRI Devel FAQ (
> > > http://mefriss1.swan.ac.uk/~jfonseca/dri/faq/html/hardware.html#ATI-SPECS )
> > >
> > > In the comments Mike makes strong reference to join as XFree86 developer
> > > as a mean to obtain NDA documentation that is shared to all XFree86
> > > developers, but it was mentioned in the last IRC meeting that this is no
> > > longer true.
> > >
> > > The fact is that the XFree86 developer page
> > > (http://www.xfree.org/developer.html) makes no mention to this and I
> > > would like to know if this still holds true or not.
> > >
> >
> > At one time, the XFree86 project had some chip docs under
> > NDA and you had to officially become an XFree86 member (join our
> > corporation) to have access to it. Times have changed. I don't
> > know of any documentation that the XFree86 project keeps that
> > isn't available elsewhere. There are still alot of individuals
> > and projects that have NDA'd documentation, but these are not
> > NDAs with the XFree86 Project Inc. XFree86 doesn't really
> > sign NDAs anymore because it hasn't been necessary.
> >
> > Mark.
>
>
> Do you know of a place for S3 ViRGE documentation? s3graphics/Via is
> still requiring an NDA for this information, some of which XFree86 has,
> but which I assume is still covered by S3's original NDA with XFree86.
> Is that not the case?
S3 used to give specs to anyone who asked for them. I got all
my S3 databooks that way. I'm not sure if XFree86 ever had an
NDA with S3. Not sure one was ever needed. The most significant
company was Matrox. They released documents for the Millennium,
Millennium II and G200 to the XFree86 project under NDA. That
was the only way you could get them back then.
Mark.
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