Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 20:03, Henrik Edlund wrote:
> On 23 Oct 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> MD> Which is always the case in MacOS because it uses the graphics
> MD> chip's iDCT and motion compensation capabilities, which we can't
> MD> for lack of documentation.
> 
> Ugh. Closed hardware should be illegal.

I am confident that ATI would release documentation for those features
if they reasonably could, considering how much they do for the
community. Don't blame them.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast