Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500, what's the plan?

[David Johnson]

>From: Gareth Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

>Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500, what's the plan?

>Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:56:53 -0700

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>David Johnson wrote:

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>>They did release specs (under NDA) to many people (including

>>yourself

>>through PI/VA Linux).

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>Sure, but not to people in the general open source community, and

>with the demise of PI/VA, I would say the chances of a driver done

>by anyone other than ATI are slim to nil. Isn't that what we're

>talking about?

 

Sure, that is a valid point but we need to remember that in the past ATI has not been adverse to supporting open source drivers or to releasing specs to qualified people.  I have no clue what ATI's plans are for supporting Linux for new chips but should some 3rd party come along capable of producing a driver I think it is reasonable to assume they might make the information available.

David

 

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