On 8/14/06, Lourens Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In contrast, the coupling between a video card and its driver is much tighter, the driver is essentially one half of the product. They already write drivers, and will have to keep doing so because the board producers aren't going to buy half a product, and open source developers aren't going to write Windows drivers. Opening up the drivers, or properly supporting various OSes other than Windows, only costs more money, increases (perceived) risk, and yields hardly any rewards, because anything other than Windows is a niche market for 3D. From this point of view, the business decision is a no-brainer. Of course they're going to keep the drivers and interface specs proprietary.
Does the driver and hardware have to be so closely coupled? Anyway if the interface between gpu and driver can become standardised somehow then maybe they can catch up later. Still does not make the situation worse for us. -- things i hate about my linux pc: 1. it takes more than a second to boot up 2. keeps asking about filenames and directories 3. does not remember what i was working on yesterday 4. does not remember all the changes i have ever made 5.cannot figure out necessary settings by itself _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
