On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 14:23:57 +0000 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Given the alleged > availability of hardware specs, I'd expect the driver to progress much faster > than it actually does. There is a link on the xorg web site somewhere to a batch of pdf files provided by amd/ati (I saw it once, but don't remember how to navigate to it again :-). The real problem is likely to be that the developers for ati cards actually believe the docs - often docs are more of a hindrance than a help when hardware revs happen several times with no change to the docs, etc. You write code that does just what the docs say, then waste vast amounts of time looking for bugs you know can't be in that code because it precisely follows the docs :-). I think the lack of docs may be why nouveau seems to be making better progress... What we need is to take a year, devise some test programs people can run to check the actual behavior of video cards against the individual bits of information described in the docs, then encourage folks to run the tests and report all the flaws in the docs which we could then ask ati to explain (but that is unlikely to happen, it is just a fantasy I have :-). -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
