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List:       dri-devel
Subject:    Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon
From:       Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz () linuxqa ! com>
Date:       2001-01-18 12:08:44
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Hi Mark, Nathan, Brian and others..

I'm sorry if I was sound as flaming NVidia. 

Indeed, their drivers are the fastest available around *today*. 

Yet, with all the respect to NVidia, I cannot find a single answer from them why
for the last 6-9 months which the driver is out - there is no solution to the
AGP problem? I see from their IRC offer bot that they release patches for their
kernel module, but why there isn't a fix for this AGP problem for the last 6-9
months? why their newest chipset (GeForce-2) is not supported yet? 

I have learned that they, indeed been payed by SGI (if I'm not mistaken) to
write the Linux port of their drivers, but why not continuing porting their
Detonator 4 drivers?

I'm really not trying to flame NVidia and I'm sorry if I'm "sounding" like I'm
flaming them.

Thanks,
Hetz

Nathan Hand wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:26:19PM -0800, Brian Pomerantz wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 03:12:42PM +1100, Nathan Hand wrote:
> > >
> > > 100% agreed. NVIDIA has done far more to support Linux than any one
> > > company should be expected to. They developed infrastructures where
> > > Linux was lacking, developed drivers for a niche platform, and have
> > > even produced a high-quality high-performance opengl implementation
> > > with no fees and/or strings attached. This truly was an outstanding
> > > effort. They deserve praise for going to such lengths.
> > >
> >
> > NVIDIA was paid to develop the Linux drivers for Intel and Alpha, they
> > didn't do it out of the kindness of their heart.  The RFP was written
> > such that the Linux performance needed to match or exceed the
> > performance of the Windows drivers in order for the deliverables to be
> > considered fulfilled.  The 3dfx drivers were commissioned in the same
> > way.
> 
> Just out of interest, who paid NVIDIA to develop the Linux drivers?
> 
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