On 07/09/2007, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/09/07, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > It seems the cat/mouse game will continue a bit. They have now > clarified that the specs will only be available under NDA: > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=826&num=1 > > However, supposedly, they will be funding the development of a 2D/3D > open source driver in that will be written in cooperation with the > community. > > A proprietary driver will still be their focus going forward for their > primary customers. > > I'll just wait and see what happens out of this...
Back and forth they go. Now AMD has announced they intended to allow access to the the 2D and 3D specifications *without* an NDA at today's X Developer Summit in the UK: "The 2D specifications will be released very soon and the 3D ones will follow shortly. Specifications for ATI's R300 GPUs should also be out in the future" http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjA0Ng -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
