On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Shawn Walker wrote: > So it would seem: > http://lwn.net/Articles/248227/ > > If they actually follow through on this, I'd buy a new ATi card in a > heartbeat. > > No offense to Intel for the great stuff they've done, but they just > don't compete performance-wise...
I agree with the second comment there, Intel's approach not only seems better but they're coming through with their promises. We have DRI for Intel chipsets for OpenSolaris today. This was due to Intel providing some specs and info to Sun. My hat is off to them. Also, in the past ATI has had different drivers for open source and for proprietary, AFAIK, and the performance has never been great for the open source version. I would be skeptical of this cat/mouse game. ATI/AMD have told Sun they would provide specs, but if they have it would be as of very recent. The fact that they're a partner to Sun and have not been able to provide such information makes me skeptical of anything written up on LWN, my $0.02. IMO, this is just another act of desparation, and I reccomend ATI only as a last resort. I've been very pleased with the nvidia driver that we have. While it is not open source, it works really well.<wink> -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
