Stewart, David C wrote: > Sun has a great crew in Beijing working on the graphics drivers, and we > have a guy named Kan working with them who is relatively new on the > project. I don't believe we are taking the binary blob approach on > graphics because Intel graphics specs have been open for some > generations, so the drivers are all open source.
The only binary blob I know of for Intel graphics on Solaris or Linux is a small bit of optional code to enable the Macrovision-encumbered functionality. http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=115536806403908&w=2 For everything else, Intel has led the pack in being the most open of the graphics vendors, and actively developing the open source 2D & 3D drivers as their only driver - AMD/ATI are starting to catch up with their recent release of 2D-only specs, but for both ATI & Nvidia cards, only their closed source binary drivers will have full performance and functionality. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
