AMD vs. nVidia binary driver?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 06:27:18PM -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> Part of the problem with trying to disassemble a video card driver would 
> be in understanding what its doing when it pokes at registers in the 
> on-board graphics card chips.

Of course.  Reverse engineering such a complex system is hard.  I am
not going to do it. :)

> Take a look at the Open Graphics Project:
>     http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki-index.php
>
> It still has a way to go but should address the issues you raised (eventually).

I never got the impression they were really getting anywhere.  An FPGA
is not going to get anywhere near the performance of a modern cheap
video card.

Specifications from AMD/ATI for current hardware is much more productive
I believe, assuming that's going as well as they claim it is.

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Len Sorensen
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