Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Small PCI core patch | Date | Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:07:12 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 22 November 2005 06:11, Neil Brown wrote: > I doubt they will see 'the light' for many years without dollar signs > attached. > > A question worth asking is: Who needs whom? Do we (FLOSS community) > need them (Graphics hardware manufactures) or do they need us? > Despite growth in Linux on Desktops, I think we need them a lot more > than they need us. [snip] > Who is going to pay these people to do this work? If you agree with > the analysis of 'who needs whom', the logical answer is 'us'. > > Maybe we need a small consortium of companies with vested interest in > OSS each ponying up half a million, and use this to employ two teams > of graphics experts, one of which works within NVidia, and one within > ATI. I suspect the two companies could be convinced to take on some > free engineering support, if it was presented the right way. > > Anyone got a few dollars to spare?
Historically hackers were not too good at raising funds.
Maybe we should use stuff which we are good at? Forcedeth is a nice precedent. 2d and especially 3d engines may be significantly harder to reverse engineer, but people can scale rather nicely, as kernel development shows. ;)
Then write specs from gained knowledge and put it on a web page.
IIRC reverese engineering for driver development is legal in most countries.
If ATI/NVidia will sue Linux on this, then server-oriented companies (RedHat, IBM, ...) probably could provide defence. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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