> > > A question to ask would be what will ATI do differently in the future > > > now that AMD have bought them? Maybe they'll be more CPU like with > > > regard to their 'instruction set' and registers... > > > > IIRC AMD did listen to the FOSS crowd about the IOMMU. > > > > It may come down to the real reason for the lack of documentation. > > It it is merely PHB stupidity, there is hope, since AMD seems to have > > a clue. If the speculation about knowingly violating patents is true, > > they would need to either fix the problem, or plaster over it. > > I'm not sure how you coupld violate a patent by documenting a register... B= > ut=20 > then I'm not a Lawyer (spit).
I believe that theory is not that documenting a register would violate a patent, but that that ATI, Nvidia, etc. might have violated patents in the hardware. Documenting how to use the hardware might reveal that. > I understood that patents were PUBLIC knowledge. And provided public=20 > documentation of an invention in return for a fixed period of protection fo= > r=20 > that invention. Yes. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
