From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:16:00 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <2c95dd590ea0f02d58b3e10c2b3d7b54@ladd.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client? Topicbox-Message-UUID: a258d686-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I deleted a line from the post that said the big issue will be the > quality of the hardware doc, if there even is any. Still, if it ends > up running linux there might be some hope. the problem is that the linux driver guy is generally getting it straight from the source, and not from the docs. so (from experience) existence of a linux driver does not imply that there are docs, or if there are, a new driver could be written from them. > I wouldn't rule out getting doc on everything but the 3D unit. Even > in that case, some of Nvidia's 3D GPUs instruction sets have been > reverse engineered. if you have time for that kind of nonsense, go ahead. there are full specs on the intel video hardware, and nobody has done a think with that. > In case you haven't noticed all of the major 3D chips guys are closed > source. ati? - erik