On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:35:46PM -0500, Michael Powell wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:05:20PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> > > >> >So . . . are you saying that increased support for 3D accelerated > >> >graphics is not an "improvement", and should therefore not be considered > >> >a worthy goal? > >> > >> full support of open hardware standards is an requirement. > >> > >> support for closed hardware standards isn't important. > > > > I disagree. I believe, rather, that support for closed hardware specs > > isn't *as* important -- but is still at least somewhat important. > > > > My reservation to the 3D driver thing is it is setting a very dangerous > precedent if the solution involves allowing a third party commercial > enterprise to dictate features FreeBSD "must include" before they will > support it.
I agree with you on that matter. Third parties like commercial hardware vendors should not be *dictating* FreeBSD design. I understand wanting to take a careful approach to working with hardware vendors, particularly when they make such demands. I just don't think that one hardware vendor saying something like that is a good reason to abandon all hope of 3D accelerated graphics support beyond what's already there. > > In this case with NVidia and the amd64 3D driver let's say for sake of > argument the developers decide "we want the amd64 3D driver so let's > go ahead and add in abc_function() and xyz_function(). Later the situation > is repeated with ATI mandating that abc_function() or xyz_function() must > be altered to ATI's specs to get ATI 3D acceleration. Now you have two > commercial companies using FreeBSD as the mud puddle in a tug of > war game. > > Do we really want third parties to have the ability to dictate to the devs > what code goes into FreeBSD? I have doubts that this is a good path. No, we don't. When did anyone say otherwise? -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth McCloctnick the Lucid: "The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste your time waving your hands and hopping when a rock or a club will do."
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