From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4538203B.8090006@village.com> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:02:51 -0400 From: Wes Kussmaul User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Radeon driver References: <8484a0e6f3d1226d0bb91aade0c2a866@mail.gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <8484a0e6f3d1226d0bb91aade0c2a866@mail.gmx.net> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: cd9e2620-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Sascha Retzki wrote: 
Anel Philippe wrote:
    
Indeed newer Ati's chipsets are not documented at all (I don't
   have docs and reading x11 drivers is ... a real drag ...) and only
   commercial drivers work (even for 2D only stuff) ...
      
I suspect that may change now that AMD is buying ATI.
    

Optimist :-)

Perhaps, but AMD has a lot more incentive than ATI to make their drivers and other stuff accessible and useful to developers.