Jeff Garzik wrote:
However the situation with video drivers is already bad, and
deteriorating. I had to hunt on the Internet to get my recent (FC4)
distro to support my low-end embedded video (via). In the future it
looks like even that won't work.
VIA is working with open source community. They are small enough
(comparatively) that they need every advantage. VIA is one of the
positive examples.
I'm aware of that. But look at the trouble we have even with the
cooperative vendors. I'm sure they had a Windows driver from day zero.
Dumb with a capital 'D'.
I hope you have a better solution.
Almost all of the solutions listed in this thread are better:
Chinese wall rev-eng,
As others pointed out, rev-eng of programmable 3D hardware will be
difficult. There will be a perpetual (and long) lag between the
introduction of hardware and Linux support. The effort has to repeat for
new revisions of the hardware. And a rev-eng driver can still not be
trusted: who knows whether the register you just wrote into doesn't have
some subtle side-effect.
funding, ...
I want some too.
I don't think Windows drivers are the best, or even a good solution. But
that may be the only realistic one. And I believe quite doable.
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