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I'd just like to point out, since everybody seems to have decided that AMD is the hot target for the night, that during r300g's initial bringup, this...

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Good luck!...

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The Catalyst codebase provides drivers for all platforms, not just Linux, and it also contains HDCP information, which is proprietary and unreleasabl...

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I currently work for OSUOSL, so I am not exactly inactive in the community. I also write lots of free-time things; examine Bravo, Darklight, Lye, etc....

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For those wondering about Marek, Tom, and I: Tom and I are still in school. I don't know about Marek but I seem to remember he is also a student.

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I would like to have a VDPAU video decoder simply so that people that write video players (mplayer, VLC, etc.) do not have to adapt to Yet Another Video...

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Entirely wrong; the chosen proposals were chosen based on their relative quality, and only four mentors were available, so only four proposals were chosen....

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Aw, airlied beat me to it. I, too, wanted to congratulate Mono on successful reinvention of modern Xv implementations.

This, of course,...

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I would say that it doesn't matter; the fact that a lawsuit happened is enough deterrence for distros and users.



Only in...

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I am ignoring all other posts in this thread, because, frankly, they've kind of gone to shit.

SGI *did* bring legal action against ATI...

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Just woke up, so forgive thinkos, please.

VMWare already uses Gallium for their drivers on all platforms. At least one incarnation of the...

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I got very used to hanging my GPU during the initial r5xx 3D bringup. It was a very common, hour-to-hour thing, and I just would sigh and reset the machine....

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This.

Out of all of the big committers to the stack, only a very small number *stay* amateurs after a couple months; people are definitely...

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John didn't say anything like that. Additionally, we get help from John all the time, as well as other AMD employees: Alex maintains (!) the 2D radeon...

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It's funny that you mention XGI; there's an XGI Volari hanging on my wall. I haven't gotten around to it. (Yet.)

Most of the devs are powered...