On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:24:41AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:18:06AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Not to mention the fact that the last video card to have free 3D support > > was the Radeon 8500/9000/9100/9200, and that we are pretty unlikely to > > get anything else in the near future. And both ATI and Nvidia don't > > provide anything else than x86 executables. > > Depends on what you mean by "near future". > > Take a look at point 267 at > http://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/develsnaps/changelog-4.3.99.8.txt > > How near that is depends on how many of Branden's changes will be included > in the 4.4 release, and of course when 4.4 itself is released.
Well, i am also an, altough not very active lately, XFree86 upstream, and i have been in contact with ATI professionally to try to get specs for a closed source ppc OS 3D drivers for the R300 family of cards, so i know what i speak from. I don't see what you mean by quoting the above changelog, please be a bit more specific. > [Also, ATI provides source. That source isn't redistributable, and > comes in an rpm package, and might have x86 dependencies, but it's > source nonetheless.] Are those more than just a wrapper stuff around a bunch of binary-only drivers like the nvidia ones ? Well at least they are based on the XFree86 accel architecture and DRI, unlike Nvidia, but i doubt there is interest on ATIs side to free this source code. Friendly, Sven Luther
