Great job Luc!! Everyone's making fantastic progress but I hope it gets further along to provide a nice soft warm place for windows converts to land. Everyone was trying to jump ship in the fedora 10/ubuntu 9.04 days. Let's just hope this gets done well on this next round of releases as it will mean millions of users. I'm already seeing large groups of linux users on the net which is unheard of 2 years ago.
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Originally posted by daniels View PostTell me the story of radeonhd again? :P
We discussed basing our work on top of avivo, but avivo was GPL-ed, and we were unable to get that to change (and i am not sure whether, at the time, you would have at all been willing to change that when we came a-knocking). Avivo did relatively little as well, so we soon progressed to a point where we overshot avivo functionality (not hard when spending worktime on it and when the hardware is available).
GPL was the main reason why avivo became just one of many levers that made AMD decide to open source things. But it was a more significant one than some other people thought they were (judging from the claims they made shortly after the announcements/releases from september 2007).
Originally posted by daniels View PostWe figured that graphics drivers were probably going to be able to work out -retro, or have an alias or something. I admit it's not ideal though; we could do something like display the root weave in everything but RC/stable tarballs?
If nothing is running on top, you then get a rootweave. If anything is running on top, you get to see what it is, without seeing the rootweave or the crapped up/old framebuffer content in between.
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Originally posted by daniels View Post'API' implies some vague sort of design. $(includedir)/xorg is many things, but not designed. The idea is to basically incrementally create useful APIs that everyone can use without too much pain. You should know this, having written a Screen(Pre)Init before ...
Current slightly more distributed model does not impede such things either, it just is a slight bit more hassle, and therefor (and only therefor) requires the developer to think a bit further about the changes he is about to make (although it hasn't stopped anyone from breaking things horribly in the past).
My analysis: people just do not want to do this tiny bit of extra thinking.
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Originally posted by Hephasteus View PostGreat job Luc!! Everyone's making fantastic progress but I hope it gets further along to provide a nice soft warm place for windows converts to land. Everyone was trying to jump ship in the fedora 10/ubuntu 9.04 days. Let's just hope this gets done well on this next round of releases as it will mean millions of users. I'm already seeing large groups of linux users on the net which is unheard of 2 years ago.
Imagine how many more people will be installing, testing and using the latest graphics driver bits when this process is made easy.
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Originally posted by libv View PostRadeonHD started afresh late july 2007. We were not at liberty to discuss anything with the outside world (while those who imposed that limitation on us happily did so all the time).
We discussed basing our work on top of avivo, but avivo was GPL-ed, and we were unable to get that to change (and i am not sure whether, at the time, you would have at all been willing to change that when we came a-knocking). Avivo did relatively little as well, so we soon progressed to a point where we overshot avivo functionality (not hard when spending worktime on it and when the hardware is available).
GPL was the main reason why avivo became just one of many levers that made AMD decide to open source things. But it was a more significant one than some other people thought they were (judging from the claims they made shortly after the announcements/releases from september 2007).
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Originally posted by daniels View PostYou never asked about the license. The -radeon guys did, and we agreed to license the bit of code they asked for under MIT/X11.
And it has to be said, I am not too certain how you would have responded when asked in July 2007 by the SUSE people, before the big event, as opposed to afterwards, when asked by Redhat and ATI.
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