Sam Lawrance wrote:
On 16/06/2007, at 6:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Ali Mashtizadeh wrote:
Hi,
Sun's pushing ATI/AMD to provide good drivers for Solaris, so it
means they
will have to work on the portability issue of their drivers. It is
probably
the best time to influence AMD's decision since they are going to do
what
Sun tells them. Nvidia has an easier time porting their drivers
since the
core of the driver is the same across all platforms AFAIK.
Hopefully, they
will realize the best stratedgy is to open source their drivers,
which there
has been some hints about it recently.
--
Ali Mashtizadeh
علی مشتی زاده
On 6/15/07, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 02:03:39PM -0400, Ali Mashtizadeh wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> This email went out on Xorg I thought it might be useful for all
of us
stuck
> with ATI cards. We should all show our interest in AMD helping
out the
BSD
> community as well! Just like Nvidia has been doing!
"Linux strategy" -- gotta love the use of the word "strategy", like
they're playing chess or Risk or Daisenryaku. Yes, because supporting
an operating system involves "strategy".
Not to sound rude, but I wouldn't hold your breath over the statement.
Yes, *absolutely* mail them and show support for the BSDs, and tell
them
you'll be happy to beta test whatever they put out (as long as they
have
a good feedback method for reporting those bugs; not some defunct HTML
form web page that sends submissions to /dev/null).
I believe AMD/ATI cares about providing a good driver base (for Linux
and probably the BSDs), but no matter how many customers mail them,
the
reality of the situation is a disappointing one: managers and
executives
of sorts are who have say over all of this, who decide all of this,
and
who ultimately make the statements on all of this. As a Texan
co-worker
of mine says, "too many chiefs, not enough indians". nVidia has the
same "problem", for what it's worth.
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1. This shouldn't have been sent to the hackers@ list, because it's
more of a discussion than a technical topic.
2. Please top post.
Disregarding those 2 comments, I have a few thoughts:
I'd certainly disregard that second point.
:-)
Yes.
s/top post/don't top post/
-Garrett
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