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.
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.
- ajax