On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 13:50 -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: > Passing the info on to the DRI project folks got no > response at all; further queries revealed that the DRI project's > Matrox experts effectively aren't involved in the DRI project > anymore, so now no open source developers are working on the Matrox > drivers. A little bit of time spent in the XF86/X.org/DRI bug > tracking systems will show similar Matrox bugs that don't get any > responses from the developers. > According to the DRI folks, the issue here is that 3D drivers are _hard_, and there are just not enough open source developers who have the skills to fix these kinds of things. For example there are 3 or 4 3D chipsets for which we have docs but no driver. So it's not quite as simple as "release some docs and the community will write a driver". Lee
