Funding Radeon driver development

[Xavier Bestel]

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 09:37 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:00:20AM +0800, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > Another interesting point made was that if Tungsten Graphics had access 
> > > to hardware specifications for later cards, they would be able to secure 
> > > commercial funding to work on it again! But anyway, we know the 
> > > likelihood of this happening at the moment ...
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be possible to ask the Linux foundation for help. They
> > have a NDA program for things like this, and provides help to
> > developers for securing hardware documentation from difficult
> > companies, see: http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/NDA_program
> 
> Don't worry, people are talking to AMD about this program, you aren't
> the first to point this out by a long shot :)
> 
> But, it's very slow going for a variety of reasons, all out of my hands
> at this point in time...

Do we have to help funding a good dinner (who said "hooker" ?) to some
ATI official to bring it forward ? :)