RE: Solution to SGI code in closed 3D drivers? (was Re: [Patch 0/3] Resubmit VIA Chrome9 DRM via_chrome9 for upstream)

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Thank you very much for your suggestion. I would still suggest to go with our X driver source which will use 3D HW accerleration with DRM too and will be released soon.
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From: Ian Romanick [mailto:id...@fr...] 
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 4:19 AM
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Cc: Greg KH; Richard Lee; Harald Welte; Bruce Chang; Joseph Chan; Benjamin Pan (Fremont)
Subject: Solution to SGI code in closed 3D drivers? (was Re: [Patch 0/3] Resubmit VIA Chrome9 DRM via_chrome9 for upstream)


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XGI previously had this problem, and I suspect VIA is having the same problem now.  They want to release the code to their 3D driver, but it's based on a version of the OpenGL sample implementation licensed from SGI.  However, the SI has since been released under some sort of open-source license.

My guess is that it wouldn't be a huge amount of work (though not trivial either) to rebase the driver on the open-source version of the SI.  Even if it only partially works, this would allow release of the driver code without license concerns.

Just a thought...
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