Re: [Dri-users] radeon rules (or does it?)

[Frank V. D. <fra...@st...>]

On Monday 13 May 2002 02:55 pm, Simon Fowler wrote:
> Well, if you want to pay Tungsten Graphics large sums of money, you
> might get your 3D driver in a couple of months ;-)

If then might? So under the current conditions it'll take half a year at 
least? :-(

> Possibly a more practical approach would be to set up a petition
> aimed at ATI to ask them to directly support Linux development, with
> money as well as specs - I think that's the biggest handicap at
> present. Funding for half a dozen full time developers would do more
> to bring the drivers up to scratch than anything else at present.
> 
> Well, that or cloning Brian, Jens, Keith and the like a few dozen
> times ;-)

Heh :) 

Yes I just don't have a clue how much work something like that is, given that 
there are specs available to anyone who asks for them - I thought ati did it 
that way, it's in fact, the reason I bought this card. Should ati make linux 
drivers? I definitely don't want them to make closedsource drivers. 

Would it be a good idea to bug ati to release (parts of) the source code of 
their (also not of supreme quality) windows drivers so you guys can port them?


Frank