On Mit, 2003-02-19 at 18:05, Ian Romanick wrote: > Mark Cuss wrote: > > A quick question regarding the 9500 and 9700 series Radeons - is support for > > 3D acceleration planned? > > Eventually, someday, if ATI releases the relavent documentation and > enough developers have the time to do the work. In the meantime, if > you're on x86 Linux (or perhaps some BSD flavors that can use Linux > binaries), ATI has a very nice binary-only driver. > > The problem right now is that, even if ATI released all of the > documentation available for the chip, there's not enough people with > enough time and the right skill sets to bring-up a 3D driver for a new > chip. :(
In fact, if there was a group of people with enough time and expertise to do it, I wouldn't be surprised if ATI didn't hesitate to provide documentation to them. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
