Re: Current discussion about the future of free software graphics
flat view
From: Alan Cox <hidden>
Date: 2004-05-12 14:14:23
On Maw, 2004-05-11 at 20:55, James Simmons wrote:
Ug. I see I'm fighting a losing battle but it doesn't matter. I couldn't never win this fight. There is MONEY involved here. This is a sure way to make sure Tungstengraphics has a income coming in. They want a monoply on the linux graphics arena then fine they can have it.
Current DRI is certainly a PITA unless you know it well but the kernel side is quite trivial underneath the macrotrastrophe and preprocessor abuse. Its mappable buffers, queue, interrupt handler, X<->kernel auth mapping, and thats it Also I'd note several folks are doing DRI nowday without Tungsten - VIA did the Savage and VIA drivers, sis6326 is a WIP but its also not tungsten stuff. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 --