[Glide-patches] RE: Glide-patches digest, Vol 1 #21 - 1 msg

[Niki W. W. <nik...@ne...>]

> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 20:04:38 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Dave Gilbert <gil...@tr...>
> To: Justin Cormack <jp...@do...>
> cc: gli...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Glide-patches] alpha status
> 
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Justin Cormack wrote:
> 
>> Looks like at long last I may get some alphas (with AGP) here, so I
>> was wondering what the Alpha status is at the moment, and what still needs
>> doing.
> 
> I'm still trying to get it going here.  It is unfortunatly very un 64 bit
> clean and has been a bit of a battle.  Unfortunatly while I have got a
> sane compile with very few pointer warnings it doesn't actually draw
> anything.  Nothing, splat, nowt - and I haven't found out why yet.
> 
> I know Niki Waibel is also still fighting it and having similar levels of
> lack of success.
> 
> To be honest since the spec is public I've wondered a number of times
> about just writing a new MESA driver which drives the board directly -
> starting from single triangles and working up.

WOW!
that would be great!!!!
... and a lot of work ...
but i think that it could be very fast that way.

niki

> Dave