Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks
On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 20:58, Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Oct 25 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 00:19, Michel Lanners wrote:
> > > - make the iDCT and motion compensation of the ATI chip available under
> > > Linux. Single most usefull improvement.
> >
> > Unfortunately, it's also the least likely to happen.
>
> What is the reason for that?
I can only speculate, but I suspect the US jurisdiction.
> So, back to the discussion, is it the case that ATI is not
> willing to cooperate? I thought that they, together with
> Matrox, were some of the more open-source-friendly companies
> making video cards.
Absolutely. They provide documentation and hardware to developers, they
submit code to XFree86. Maybe they do even more but that's what I know
about.
> Do they have any legal problems releasing the documentation?
I can't think of any other reason why they wouldn't do it.
> Would a petition signed by users of the "minority" OSes (say,
> users of the many distributions of Linux and the BSDs) be a
> sensible notice for ATI that there are people willing to use
> their hardware with alternative OSes?
I think they know, see the press release Branden posted.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
Reply to:
- References:
- Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks
- From: Michel Lanners <mlan@cpu.lu>
- Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks
- From: Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>
- Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks
- From: Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>
- Prev by Date:
Re: Trouble copying a large number of files to last ext2 partition
- Next by Date:
What G3/G4 accelerator cards work with PowerPC Linux?
- Previous by thread:
Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks
- Next by thread:
Re: G3's, G4's, Altivec, DVD's, iBooks, and TiBooks
- Index(es):