On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 10:16:21PM -0600, Jens Owen wrote: > Timothee Besset wrote: > > > > That is great news. I was about to inquire about those recently released > > FireGL drivers that are said to work with the 8500. Is the developement of > > those drivers related in any way to TG? > > AFAIK, the drivers themselves utilize the DRI and were written by the > FireGL group at ATI. > > > As far as Doom3 Linux goes .. I think there's still a long way before Doom3 > > can run with all features enabled on an open source ATI driver. As you are > > aware, Doom3 makes heavy use of pixel shaders and other advanced features. > > Don't ask about ETAs or what the plans for a 'technology test' of Doom3 > > Linux are though, cause I have no idea .. all I can say is that Id would > > help out driver developement / testing / performance feedback on Linux as > > much as possible. > > Correct, you won't see HW pixel shaders in this open source driver.
Is that for political reasons or because there's no plan yet to add the extensions that'll be required to use them? Does anyone know the extensions required (timothee?) and whether ATI have published them? I'm unlikely to get an 8500 anytime soon, but if there's a set of extensions that'll need to work in software if nothing else, which could be implemented in parallel, I'm willing to help there. -- Michael. _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
