On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Robert Schiele wrote:
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 04:36:22PM +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote:
There are no specs, so they cannot be published.
Release cycles are too fast, there is no documentation even within ATI or NVIDIA.
You want to tell me that the driver developers at these companies work with the trial-and-error method? --- Well, at least that would explain the quality of their drivers...
Yes, actually, Matthias is exactly right. The graphics hardware industry is in a miserable state for exactly this reason: they *can't* collaborate. Their only reason for being in business is to sell hardware, and to sell that hardware they must have value-add. And since it's hard to produce *real* value-add, they instead play silly games with drivers. Which is why Intel's move into this space is so important. They know that, in this case, open source *is* the value-add. A good article on this topic: http://news.com.com/Intel+aims+for+open-source+graphics+advantage/2100-7344_... --g ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors ------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org