On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Matthew Miller wrote: >> No, not currently. There are no plans of it being added to DRI either at >> this time. At some point some company out there such as The Weather >> Channel whom funded Radeon 8500 (R200) support might have an interest in >> newer 3D support and fund it's development, but unless some company out >> there who wants open source 3D support for newer chips forks out the money >> to have it implemented, I wouldn't count on open source 3D support >> occuring any time soon. > >Just out of curiousity (and certainly not because *I* have the money) do you >have any idea how much it'd cost someone to do so?
It would require direct discussion with the hardware vendor, and perhaps access to some of their documentation to make a guesstimate. I would assume that adding support for the features supported by R200 currently would likely take anywhere from 3-6 months. Figure out how many engineers would be required, multiply that times their salary and times the number of months, then add on a profit margin for the organization doing the work, and that's a rough ballpark. Very hard to give any actual numbers though. It also would depend enormously on how similar the R300 works to the R200/R250. It is possible that it might just require a couple weeks worth of hacking by one person. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
