| From: | William W. Toner II |
| Date: | 12 Dec 99 at 14:11:26 |
| Subject: | [warpup] Re: Test |
>> While I understand the need to concentrate on drivers for one or two
>> just to get things going in the beginning, I don't want to see any
> long-term ow> restriction like this. I think we should be able to write P96
> or CGX drivers
>
> You misunderstood Sam. His point was it is no sense in wasting
> implementation time by writing drivers for a lot of Boards at once... nobody
> can hinder you in writing Drivers for yet another Board, of course. Sam's
> point was that if this project goes ahead AOSPPC wouldn't ship with more
> than 1-2 drivers i think...
Oh OK. I can understand only making one or two drivers available at release
time, I can live with that. I just don't want to have other, better, newer
boards locked out after the initial release. I don't expect 10 or 20 graphics
cards to be supported at release of AOSPPC, but I think it would be great to
see this many about a year after AOSPPC ships.
>> But certainly once AmigaOS is PPC native on a POP board, I would love to
>> the fastest possible PPC with Altivec in it, with the fastest
>> graphics card in it. We certainly shouldn't have to throw away
> hardware every
>
> But this is not the thing to focus on right now. even "not the best" GFX
> Boards outside the Amiga market BLOW AWAY what we have on Amiga right now. I
> prefer "state of the art hardware for real" to "even better, but not sure if
> it will ever appear, as too much developer resources are wasted by using up
> too much time for doing dozens of drivers".
I think it would be nice to have one economic board and one real good board
supported at release date of such an Amiga PPC native POP system.
Preferrably, "real good" relative to the release date, but I would be happy
with a real good card as of today as well if a real good card as of next year
can't have a driver in time for release.
Bill Toner
bill@prodatasys.com