On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 23:02, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > a couple months from now I might find myself with a bit of free time in > my hands, which I'd like to partially spend working on (free) software > project. In the last year or so I haven't been following the DRI > development in any fashion that I could even call "following". Every > now and then I skim the mailing lists, so I have an extremely coarse > feeling about where things are. I'm aware several parties are working > on the Mesa side of things for supporting ARB vertex programs and ARB > fragment programs, and from what I read, there's a parser in the works, > state binding stuff, and things along those lines. > > For what I've got no feeling whatsoever is the hardware support side of > things (in terms of DRI support). The R200 does not have support for > vertex nor fragment programs. The R300 supports both, but according to > the status page none of the R300 chips are yet supported. Sadly the > status page doesn't mention why the R300 and up is not yet supported > (i.e., what needs to be done?) or if there are short-term plans for > having support for these cards (i.e. people writing it now).
I haven't heard of any efforts or even plans yet. From what I remember of the r200 driver development, I imagine a working driver is months away even if work started right now. > Assuming the R300 gets supported in the near term future, there's still > the question of documentation from ATI. Here's where I'm asking for > help from people with access to ATI's developement docs: is the > required documentation for implementing vertex/fragment program support > provided? If not, is there a chance that it will be provided? Things aren't looking too good in this area unfortunately. I don't know whether ATI can't or doesn't want to provide docs about these features, but I suspect the former. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
