Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 16:29:36 -0700
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>, Tim Fairchild <tim@bcs4me.com>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NVIDIA Driver 1.0-6111 fix
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On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 01:04:55PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> The source code ones only go for R2xx series, not R300/R400. A
> browse of the documentation would have told you that. Whether this
> will change nobody knows. Perhaps as R3xx ceases to be leading edge
> ATI will be nice to us.

Having fill specs doesn't buy much, the amount of work required to get
a high-performance workable driver is enormous.  I suspect any open
effort along these lines would take so long at to be uninteresting.

I'd much rather have ATI help work with the community in finding a
solution to opening up their drivers (in whole or in part).  The same
applies to nvidia of course, but much I'm much less optimistic there
(which is a shame, because both vendors could gain a lot by working
with the community rather than what feels like against it at times).


  --cw
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