| From: | David LAROCHETTE |
| Date: | 09 Dec 99 at 11:28:42 |
| Subject: | Re: [warpup] Re: Test |
Sam Jordan wrote:
> >And who knows what this will cost, and even as it ships we will suffer from
> >the
> >same problems you fins on mac.. lack of drivers for the cool hardware.
>
> Drivers aren't that much of a problem anymore for Linux, even the
> graphics board manufacturers themselves started to write Linux drivers
> recently. And as lots of drivers are open source (XF86) it would be no
> problem to port them to AMIGA. And besides that: it should be clear,
> that an AOSPPC first would only support one or two graphics boards.
> It is absolutely important to restrict the amount of graphics cards,
> because otherwise it would take ages until the drivers are written.
> And at the time the choice has to be done, the available drivers for
> Linux are certainly one major argument.
The problem is that all these drivers, as in the PC version of QNX, use
the "flat mode", in which the CPU does everything and the chip just
displays.
In this mode, you can even make one driver for all cards.
But handling them correctly, using 2D / 3D acceleration, usw, is more
difficult, as many gfx chip builders don't distribute free
documentation.
I think Sam allready know that with Permedia2.
Hey Sam, Warp3D isn't based on the Linux P2 driver, uh ? :)