[haiku-development] Re: Is Intel 810 Video Driver Needed?
- From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:51:19 -0700
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Jorge G. Mare<koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't have either one. :)
>
> I just think that Haiku will benefit more from adding support for modern
> rather than for old (obsolete?) hardware.
But, in order to support a given piece of hardware, a developer pretty
much needs to 1) have said hardware, 2) have documentation for it, and
3) have the ability/know how to develop it.
In the case of i810, Gerald did indicate he already has it, and I'm
pretty certain there are plenty of reference implementations of it out
there he can obtain information from, and AFAIK, that hardware also
doesn't have a lot of modern features, so the complexity of that
device would probably be pretty low compared to modern chipsets
(admittedly, I'm guessing).
Just wanted to point this out, since he didn't actually offer any
RadeonHD support in his first email... if this was a "do I spend my
time writing A or write B instead" discussion, I'd certainly vote for
the newer hardware first.
Now, if Gerald *is* interested in writing drivers for more recent
hardware - I *would* be willing to pitch in some $ to purchase him
some hardware so he can :)
- Urias
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