Alan Cox wrote: > The lack of an ATI open R300 driver is at least partly certain Linux > organisations fault for not taking up opportunities rather than ATI's. > (and more I cannot say in public) Thanx for that insight. > Commoditisation means that very soon all the 'must keep secret' IP > will be only relevant to real time ray tracing. What happens to the > Radeon 9800 when Intel 9xx/VIA/etc graphics on chip are good enough > for gamers. Leading-edge video will be for VR nuts. > (And guess why Nvidia and ATI are in the chipset business nowdays) Another good insight. Of course, I still see the GPU market with a good 3-5 years more of Triple-Moore's Law, unlike CPUs. In reality, people should be interested in vendors like 3DLabs who want to keep OpenGL pure. > Hardly. AGP is a published open specification. People like nVidia do some > really clever tricks with it for performance like the DMA contexts but nothing > major we don't actually understand AFAIK. Well, from what I understand, there are many unpublished aspects to AGP, ones that only Intel licensees have, or have been reverse engineered. And nVidia is legally bound by those and not to work on a reverse engineered version. Same deal with the NIC in their nForce chipset, and why they release the nvnet driver, but can't officially work on the forcedeth. > Which would be why folks are currently just starting to sort out PCI express > ATI radeons right now of course. Exactomundo. The GPU market is a catch-22 when it comes to commodity, at least for awhile. But it is very nice to see Fedora Core 3 install DRI/GLX out-of-the-box on a i855GM in a notebook. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
