On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Adam Jackson <ajax(a)redhat.com> 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