Vendor support (was Re: The ati petition)

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Sat Sep 4 18:22:27 PDT 2004


On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 20:41:44 -0400, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 20:27, Rogelio M.Serrano Jr. wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > http://unichrome.sf.net
> > > http://www.via.com.tw
> > >
> > [snip]
> >
> > I think it was mentioned elsewhere that this is NDA only.
> 
> The drivers are open source.  Are you saying we should make a
> distinction between open source drivers written under NDA and open
> source drivers written from freely available docs?
> 
> Seems to me the meaningful distinction here is between open source and
> binary only.

I find source code to be more useful because often times the way to
accomplish something is not readily obvious from the register specs.

Alex

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