On 02/16/10 07:39 PM, Hillel Lubman wrote: >> But can you tell us *how* you intend to bring support for Expert3D, >> Expert3D-Lite, XVR-500, >> XVR-600, XVR-1000, XVR-1200, XVR-4000 into Xorg? All those are proprietary >> and not even one of >> the best Xorg driver developers (from the Xorg devel list) could write a >> driver without the device >> specific specs, which are not available for those chipsets... That's >> hopeless, unless Sun decides >> to pay for it >> > How did OpenBSD managed to produce drivers for them then? (See > http://www.openbsd.org/45.html ) >
Unless someone subscribed to this alias wrote driver, how would you expect this audience to answer with any real knowledge? A better question would be how were these drivers produced without violating the terms of the Creative license agreement, specifically the section titled "Decompiling, Disassembling, or Reverse Engineering". It was previously speculated, maybe on this alias, that parts of this driver were derived from the Linux sunxvr500 driver. If this is true, no one who touches the OpenSolaris kernel source can look at this driver unless it is reviewed and approved by someone from legal. No one who worked on these drivers at Sun can produce derived works without permission from the IP owner, which is Creative. As stated before, the requests for publishing documentation and/or allowing Sun people to produce derived works must be made to Creative.
