On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 14:31 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 02:28:10PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: >> >> > What about all the other xorg-x11-drv* video cards, admittedly they're >> > generally considered legacy but there are a lot that don't do 3D at >> > all there. >> >> Of the hardware still produced, they're either things Adam listed as >> unsupported, don't have 3D engines or they're powervr. > > Oh, yeah, fair, I totally forgot to bitch about Poulsbo there. Insert > standard bitching about Poulsbo here. > > Of hardware not currently in production - where, again, we're talking > about whether a 3D driver could usefully be written to enable > gnome-shell on the hardware - it's still a remarkably short list. Via > did some DX8 parts, XGI before they went out of business, possibly a few > SiS parts before they did the same. Yea, I've even heard recent rumours of Via releasing their 3D specs for an actual real open driver! > I should emphasize that I don't think hardware 3D needs to be a blocker > for a primary arch either. My beef was just with the phrasing that > implied that "only 3" GPUs was somehow inadequate. Sorry, by "only 3" I meant 3 core GPU platforms ie ATI / Intel / nVidia. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
