On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 13:00 -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote: > 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.
Sun refusing to make noise doesn't help either. Considering that almost every SPARC machine ships with ATI gpus inside, if they really meant it, they would have removed it - and launch a campaign of pulling AMD's name through the mud for poor co-operation with a partner. > IMO, this is just another act of desparation, and I reccomend ATI only > as > a last resort. Even then, I'd sugges them to abandon modernity and go and live with an armish community before wasting money and time on AMD. > I've been very pleased with the nvidia driver that we have. While it > is > not open source, it works really well.<wink> I'm surprised that with how AMD treating Sun, after Sun giving them (AMD) a leg up into the server space. A little 'good fellows' meeting and making them realise there is a component of them holding their end of the bargin is in order - you scrach my back and I'll scratch yours. Lack of scratching on their part means concrete shoes ;-) Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
