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. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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