On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Gene C. wrote: >Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 10:37:04 -0500 >From: Gene C. <czar@xxxxxxxxx> >To: xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Reply-To: xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Subject: Re: ATI Radeon 9200 SE > >On Monday 15 December 2003 08:37, Mike A. Harris wrote: >> So I'm not sure what your point is. Who cares how many PCI IDs >> there are? I suppose if ATI and Nvidia didn't want to both be >> #1, they could produce less products, sell less products, and >> have a smaller need for PCI IDs, and thus make it easier to >> update PCI ID lists. > >Only point I have is that it make things a bit more difficult for you and the >other folks at Red Hat that have to deal with it. If the alternative is that a hardware vendor doesn't release any new products, then either: 1) No innovation occurs, and video hardware is not interesting anymore. 2) Some other competitor takes over the market instead. 3D video hardware is a highly competitive marketplace, and with multiple companies competing tooth and nail to be #1, a lot of innovation occurs, and frequent new products will be released in order to try and out-do their competitors. While this creates more work in the case of an XFree86 developer and/or package maintainer, and is sometimes a bit tedious, if the alternative is no new hardware features, I'll take the extra PCI IDs. ;o) -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
