On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Ian D Romanick wrote:
>Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:36:13 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Ian D Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Re: Discussion of donation driven DRI project.
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>> IMHO the whole idea of being donation-driven, is for the monetary
>> donations to be a motivator.
>
>The one place where donations would help is in getting hardware for
>spare-timers. Over the past two years I can't even begin to count the
>number of times that I've heard "I can't work on that part because I don't
>have the relevent hardware." If there was, for example, a DRI paypal
>account, it could be used by the project lead to purchase / ship hardware to
>developers.
>
>Just a thought...
Very much agreed. This is moreso even for standard XFree86
driver development (2D et al.), and porting old 3.3.6 driver to
4.x.
For the older hardware, people would be likely willing to port
the drivers given specs and some hardware gratis.
What I personally would like to see, if possible - and this isn't
really DRI related, is for the hardware that is fairly IMHO
poorly supported (s3/Trident/neomagic, and a few others) to get
more functional 2D drivers. Nothing mission critical, but as
3.3.6 disappears into oblivion, it will be nice to have those
older hardware at least functioning stable if not full featured
in 4.x.
For the DRI side of things, probably a non-public list similar to
the XFree86 member-only lists could be set up with which serious
project members (such as the new Mach64 people) could be set up,
and subject to whatever NDA's are required to get going. Such an
effort would be a doorway to future development, and a necessity
if the community is going to get involved in a larger way than
it has been previously.
Of course wide open forums are alway preferred, but when dealing
with NDA info from 3D chipmakers, they'll be more likely to help
under NDA and private lists than on open lists.
Daryll, are there dri project private lists I presume that could
be extended to new developers similar to XFree86's developmental
list?
TTYL
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