On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 15:05:37 -0500 (EST) "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Look at the Intel i8x0 driver for example. The Intel specs are publically available, and Intel funds development of the driver. The hardware is readily available too. Yet there is not any major contributions to the code at all other than what is produced by funded development.
I think, sadly, its because the hardware is shit.
even on windows, i8x0 performs worse than a voodoo 3 by a LARGE margin...
The newer chipsets (supported by the i830 driver) are a lot faster than the originals. Additionally, the driver until recently (ie before the last lot of changes done by David Dawes & I) didn't do a good job of setting up tiling, which was vital to decent performance.
I don't have one up & running to give numbers, but they have come along considerably since the i810/i815.
Keith
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