Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266246AbUA2QzG (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:55:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266252AbUA2QzF (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:55:05 -0500 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:2568 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266246AbUA2Qyy (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:54:54 -0500 Message-ID: <40193BAA.50905@techsource.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:58:18 -0500 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@chaos.analogic.com CC: chakkerz@optusnet.com.au, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] Crazy idea: Design open-source graphics chip References: <4017F2C0.4020001@techsource.com> <200401291211.05461.chakkerz@optusnet.com.au> <40193136.4070607@techsource.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1086 Lines: 32 Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > With the press Linux is getting from the IBM/Linux advertisements > for the US football games, etc., methinks it won't be long before > NVidia and all the rest go open-source, just to jump onto that > band-wagon. They just need a smart way to protect their intellectual > property. > Indeed! And this may make the whole idea of an open-arch GPU a pipe-dream. Honestly, we don't _need_ an open-arch GPU. We just need something whose register set is fully publically documented. But an open-arch GPU would be NEAT, though. :) Hmmm... If I understand this right, one of the reasons nVidia doesn't release open source drivers is that they don't own all of the IP in their cores. I wonder what that IP is and if the open-source community couldn't collaborate to produce LGPL-like replacements. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/