Re: [Dri-users] VIA Source Release News?

[Alex D. <ale...@gm...>]

On 4/13/05, Nathan Olberding <nat...@gm...> wrote:
> And I'm guessing it really doesn't help your developments as it
> probably doesn't reveal any useful info about the hardware?

well, it's the same source we based our work on, so we've gleaned
everything we can from it at this point.

Alex

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> On 4/13/05, Felix K=FChling <fx...@gm...> wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 13.04.2005, 14:42 +0000 schrieb Nathan Olberding:
> > > The following news article says Via has released source for UniChrome=
,
> > > ProSavage and ProSavageDDR.
> > >
> > > http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=3D10279
> > >
> > > One of the comments says it's nothing that wasn't already available
> > > from a developer portal of theirs. I'm confused, and thought this
> > > might be the place to go for answers. Did they release anything new,
> > > or is it just a more accessable distribution method? How much does
> > > this help Alex and Felix?
> >
> > I didn't examine the tarball very closely, but it looks to me like the
> > driver source released to Alan Cox that the current driver in Xorg, Mes=
a
> > and DRM CVS is based on. In other words, it's more buggy, less secure,
> > supports less hardware and doesn't work with Linux 2.6. ;-)
> >
> > >
> > > On a side note, I just noticed that the Savage DRI devs both have
> > > two-syllable names ending with an X. Your names could be UNIX variant=
s
> > > (Multics -> UNIX, AIX, Linux, Alex, Felix...).
> > >
> >
> > :)
> >
> > I hope no one gets the funny idea that my name infringes their
> > trademarks. :-/
> >
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> >
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