Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261337AbUJZQ52 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:57:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261338AbUJZQ52 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:57:28 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:35986 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261337AbUJZQ50 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:57:26 -0400 Message-ID: <417E81E4.4020309@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:57:08 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jesper Juhl CC: Timothy Miller , pbecke , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? References: <6.1.2.0.1.20041026082223.0231edd8@mail.javagear.com> <417E70D2.2010302@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: 1099 Lines: 31 Jesper Juhl wrote: > I'd say a card with open source drivers and access to detailed > documentation from a company that's willing to work with the Open Source > Software community is a very big first step, and a massive improvement on > the current state of affairs. If we could just get that as a start, then I > for one would be thrilled. Well, as Alan mentioned, there are already five 3D chipsets out there with docs going to anyone who is serious about implementing a 3D driver for that particular piece of hardware. You need more than just available docs and hardware. You need... * engineering resources to implement a complicated driver (3D h/w drivers are complex beasts) * a compelling design and/or [low] cost * to avoid the problem where the h/w changes so often, the open source driver maintainers simply cannot keep up. Jeff - 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/