Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree? Update to Mesa-3.6/4.0

[Gareth Hughes]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> Another point is that binary drivers like NVIDIA are x86 only, which is
> a problem for me (PPC) as Apple now bundles their cards with recent
> Mac G4s.
> 
> Also, despite beeing pretty complete, the r128 driver is experiencing
> all sorts of lockups (depending on the chip rev. and using AGP or not)
> on PPC. I don't know if x86 has the same issue, but since there doesn't
> seem to be anybody working on it anymore with good knowledge of the
> r128 engine (and it's possible bugs)...

Indeed, this is a problem...  Mind you, in the days of the GeForce3 (and it 
successors) and Radeon 8500 (or whatever they're calling the R200), who 
wants to be stuck maintaining a driver for the r128?  Not me...

-- Gareth

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