ATI video comes out of the closet
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Thu Sep 6 23:49:23 UTC 2007
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Bruce Byfield wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-09 at 16:55 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
>
>> While good, it's still not as good as having proper open-source drivers
>> supported by the manufacturer as well as the community.
>>
>> The Noveau driver project faces the same unfortunate situation with Nvidia as
>> the OpenOffice folks do when reverse-engineering the MS doc format: there is
>> nothing stopping Nvidia from making a few "improvements" that will break the
>> Noveau drivers more-or-less at will.
>
> Counterpoint: The community is more strongly motivated to keep the
> drivers current than the manufacturer. And, given the FOSS community's
> strong record with reverse-engineering, I doubt that Nvidia will keep
> ahead of Nouveau for any length of time once the basic drivers are done.
Depends. For basic operation, yes. But there are a couple of patented
bits in OpenGL that nVIDIA supports. Is Nouveau going to support those as
well? I don't know how many apps depend on those pieces, but it could be
an issue depending on what fails to work.
Personally I have a bit problem with patents incorporated into standards.
Please insert screaming rant here.
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