On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 09:26, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, DRI won't work on the Radeon mobility 9600 included in this one. I > think we should start a petition or other such to ask ATI about either : > > - providing docs for the DRI project to have someone start working on > the R300 core (even if it is only later, when R400 or something is > released.
What good are docs when there's nobody to work on it? I believe that if there was a serious effort to produce working drivers (like for the R200 core, when The Weather Channel hired Tungsten Graphics to do it), docs wouldn't be a problem. A sufficiently large group of willing and competent volunteers might work as well, but who would that be? I think the key is that ATI needs confidence that providing the docs actually yields a working result. > or > > - make a powerpc build of their proprietary drivers. As a minority of a minority, I'm not sure we have the market force to make such demands. > Hoping that they are endian clean, and not too messy. Which I tend to doubt. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
