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Originally posted by pal666 View Postwell, just as i said, you are discussing your imagination, everyone else is discussing job offer for "developing a new Linux open source graphics driver stack, including Mesa and kernel-mode drivers" listing "Experience of upstreaming changes to an open source project" among requirements
exactly. they didn't want it 5 or 10 years ago. but now their options are limited. it's time for you to wake up. and i never said i trust them to pull this through. but direction is correct
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Originally posted by rene View PostThe direction of not publishing the registering specification for 20 years
Originally posted by rene View PostOpen Source developer do not want to wait for questionable drivers, if the ever materialize.
Originally posted by rene View PostWe want register level ISA specification. Just look at the amazing xf86-video-nv and other stuff vendor driers.Last edited by pal666; 14 February 2020, 05:27 PM.
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Originally posted by pal666 View Posti've said it already: stop living 20 years ago. everyone knows they were bad. but they didn't have job offers for developing open drivers either. now circumstances have changed, but you are failing to adapt.
open source developers have plenty of other arm videocards to hack on. oh wait, neither one has register level isa spec? somehow open source developers manage without it.
just look at amazing amd, intel and broadcom videodrivers. they all have something in common. (hint: they are funded by vendor. just like powervr could be if subj will not flop)Last edited by rene; 14 February 2020, 05:32 PM.
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Originally posted by rene View Postthis will again result in nothing. If they would just have released register level specifications we would have already a fine open source driver a decade ago. Wonder why they still don't want to do that and have skilled people work on this. Also. even if this employee gets something working, it will be a pain to maintain without any open specifications.
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I'm very skeptical of PowerVR until they prove otherwise. Having to tell users of the pitfall after they were in the pit was not fun. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...s/+bug/1132584
If Linus can give a middle finger to Nvidia, surely I've earned the right to do the same to PowerVR after all the time I spent triaging Ubuntu bugs and marking duplicates.
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Originally posted by rene View Post
Yes, of course, I should have been more specific: Of course that are the good examples, not the countless of out of tree, half closed with binary blobs, and other sketchy things that are usually floating around, and are still a thing in the Android ecosystem.
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