Re: Fwd: AMD deciding _now_ what to do about Linux

2007-06-17 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, mal content <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Docs are more important than drivers. Please ask for > docs. Yes. Drivers get us drivers for the platforms they decide to support, which will pretty much kill development on the open source drivers (check out the open source NVidia a

Re: Fwd: AMD deciding _now_ what to do about Linux

2007-06-17 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Sunday 17 June 2007, you wrote: > What does this program do? > > #include > > int main(void) > { > printf("%u\n", 0x2a); > return 0; > } > > Docs are more important than drivers. Please ask for > docs. > > MC Displays the answer to the question of life the universe and everything. As is

Re: Fwd: AMD deciding _now_ what to do about Linux

2007-06-16 Thread mal content
What does this program do? #include int main(void) { printf("%u\n", 0x2a); return 0; } Docs are more important than drivers. Please ask for docs. MC ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat T

Re: Fwd: AMD deciding _now_ what to do about Linux

2007-06-16 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 02:16:48PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote.. > Wilko Bulte wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 10:33:00AM +0100, Dieter wrote.. > > > >>So who, exactly, is the best person to write to requesting > >>docs for AMD/ATI graphics/video chips? > >> > >>We need to politely inform them

Re: Fwd: AMD deciding _now_ what to do about Linux

2007-06-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
Wilko Bulte wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 10:33:00AM +0100, Dieter wrote.. So who, exactly, is the best person to write to requesting docs for AMD/ATI graphics/video chips? We need to politely inform them that There are a lot of operating systems out there, and they all nee

Re: AMD deciding _now_ what to do about Linux

2007-06-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
Sam Lawrance wrote: On 16/06/2007, at 6:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Ali Mashtizadeh wrote: Hi, Sun's pushing ATI/AMD to provide good drivers for Solaris, so it means they will have to work on the portability issue of their drivers. It is probably the best time to

Re: AMD deciding _now_ what to do about Linux

2007-06-15 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 16/06/2007, at 6:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Ali Mashtizadeh wrote: Hi, Sun's pushing ATI/AMD to provide good drivers for Solaris, so it means they will have to work on the portability issue of their drivers. It is probably the best time to influence AMD's dec