2009/7/17 Harald Welte <haraldwe...@viatech.com>: > 1) VIA's 3D Xorg driver cannot be released as FOSS since it cotains 3rd party > licensed code > > (...) > > 4) VIA does not have the resources to write an entirely new 3D driver for > Chrome9, especially since future products contain a different, incompatible > GPU. I think it's much more useful to focus the resources at getting things > "right" for those future products. > > So, as you can see, the situation is far from being perfect. However, it > could > also be much worse.
That's really poor explaination for lefting Chrome 9 users without 3D. Earlier GPUs have at least some basic 3D (no Compiz) that works with simple apps. I understand you can't just release current 3D driver but I also belive AMD just proved it's possible to write 3D driver in ~year. You've already DRM part done (it's written and tested!) so that makes your work much easier. Did you try to calculate how many ppl would you need to hire to write that driver? Did you consider cooperation with some distro developers like AMD tried with Novell? Maybe I'm too optimistic but r600 driver was written quite fast by only few ppl with quite nice effect visible already. -- Rafał Miłecki ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
