Re: [Dri-devel] New cards (GPU's) from old card makers? DRI support?

[José F. <j_r...@ya...>]

On 2002.04.18 20:42 David Bronaugh wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 20:17:44 +0100
> José Fonseca <j_r...@ya...> wrote:
> > On 2002.04.18 19:12 Smitty wrote:
> > > ...
> > >
> > > So up to five new GPU's / architectures which leads to the obvious
> > > question(s) ...
> > >
> >
> > With the inhuman effort that it will be to support so many new GPUs the
> > obvious question I was expecting to read was "How can I help?"...
> 
> Yeah. Hmm.. if Matrox decides to be more open this time, it'd be great -
> wasn't there a binary-only library involved with the G400?
> 

I don't know if there were closed drivers in the beginning. I have the 
impression that now the binary library just contains the IP that was 
licensed and doesn't belong to Matrox.

> ...
> 
> > So while people just keep asking when is foo or bar ready, but don't do
> > much about it, there will be several chips that will never get
> supported
> > due to this huge difference between the fast developement of this
> > techonology and the limited oopen-source manpower allocated to DRI...
> 
> That kind of bugs me as well. Not that I'm not part of it *grin*...
> nonetheless, jose, I appreciate your work on the mach64 -- there is now
> what I would say is decent hardware OpenGL support on it.

Well, "decent" is a little bold... it's much far away of its full 
potential.

> 
> Now, I'd love to see the 2D engine running too... *grin*. Could you tell
> me what's entailed to get that going?

Nothing changed since this subject was brought up before. After DMA (which 
I'm preparing now) and AGP texturing is finished, for me at least.

But really nothing prevents someone to work on that subject since it can 
be made in parallel. Why don't you start work on it instead? I know as 
much from that subject as you do - almost nothing. I guess that basically 
what is needed is to see how R128 and Radeon do the 2D accel locking and 
apply the same. If there is a need of a missing feature on the DRM I'll 
fill in the missing part as I'm currently working very closely on it.

> 
> David Bronaugh
> 

José Fonseca