[haiku-development] Re: Google Summer of Code 2008

> Fredrik Modéen wrote:
>> - A HD 3D driver for a graphic card Nvidia, ATI, Intel or VIA, perhaps
>> begin with ATI R100 - R200 I think we have one in our community how has
>> the docs (through NDA but perhaps AMD are willing to drip the NDA?)
>
> I have been thinking about this and the fact is that without specs it is
> virtually impossible to create a 3D accelerated driver (yeah, Rudolph
> did it but he is Rudolph. :) Also, his driver still only support old
> nvidia boards). One way to work around this would be to create a wrapper
> for the DRI/GLX interface used in Linux and actually loading the Linux
> binary only drivers for ATI and nVidia cards present in Linux. If the
> drivers only use C, which is very likely, this should even work with GCC
> 2.95 builds. I am not sure how many dependencies those drivers have but
> it should be possible, with enough work, to do with them what was done
> with the BSD network drivers (and there is the advantage of not having
> to worry about compiling the driver itself as it is provided as a binary
> object only anyway).
Or perhaps use the DRI 3D addon part that has the HD 3D part (but that was
probably the driver you was talking about :))

http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/DRIintro.html
part 5.3

Yes I have also been thinking about this :)

>
> I think that would be a great project.
>
> -Bruno
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MVH
Fredrik Modéen

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