Am Sonntag, 24. Oktober 2004 19:38 schrieb Bernardo Innocenti:
> Dave Airlie wrote:
> >>r200 render path looks really A LOT better, unfortunately the open-source
> >>driver doesn't implement the required extensions (some bits of
> >> documentation are missing afaik, and even if not (I have no idea what's
> >> in the documentation or not) it would probably quite a bit of work as
> >> core mesa doesn't support them neither (mostly
> >> ATI_(text_)fragment_shader).
> >
> > Well I've started it, but it'll take me a while to finish off the
> > software implementation, Eric thinks he can do the hardware side (I think
> > I can probably do it as well.. but I'll try and get the software side
> > working first hopefully...)
>
> Thank you for doing this work.  We really need to get the open-source
> ATI driver on par with the propretary driver (both feature-wise and
> performance-wise).

But sadly we will NEVER match it.

NO SmoothVision, HyperZ docu ever....

> Even though I just have a Radeon 9200, I'm very excited about the
> ongoning R300 effort and with there was a similar project for NVidia
> cards too.

Above applies here, too. - Sorry.

The situation seems to be much worse in the future.
Bad IP (TRIPS, etc.) madness due to USA-"law".

-Dieter


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