[interfacekit] Re: Hello, testing testing 123...

Hi Gabe nice to meet you,

Yeah, I only heard last week that Thomas has a new job so to speak.  :)

What is involved in the move to OpenBeOS, is it just a JAM makefile?  I
presume no one has done it because it's happily living its life over at
bebits.  The Radeon driver is probably the last driver you want to
re-start your driver development with!  It is rather complicated. When I
hacked together the R300 version I chopped a huge amount of code from
the engine sync files that I still to this day have no idea what it
does!  Yet it still worked.  The tech information ATI trickle feed is
even more perplexing!  It is a shame that Thomas has had a re-direction
at this time, as he just got access to the R300 DDK.

Euan

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Subject: [interfacekit] Re: Hello, testing testing 123...

On Monday 01 March 2004 03:49 pm, Euan Kirkhope wrote:

> I would like to announce that I am planning on being a serial lurker,
> and will be lurking in the corner from now on. :-) I know some of you
> will know me from Begroovy and various other forums.  Hopefully I will
> be able to contribute to the project in the coming months / years. ;-)
> My main interests are hardware related mostly graphics cards, and low
> level stuff in general.  I'm 24, I work for a mining company as an
> electronic engineer, doing software engineering in embedded C (OS9),
> communications / control, and the likes.  Plus windows CE, GDI / MFC
> based programming.  Hopefully I'll find a happy medium in OpenBeOS
> somewhere.

I have been thinking that somebody needs to fork Thomas's radeon driver
so 
that it can continue development (he doesn't seem to repsond to emails).

Perhaps you could work on that and we can bring it into our cvs tree.  I
have 
been planning on learning more about recent video cards and drivers, so
maybe 
I could assist you if I can find the time.  The last time I did
low-level 
video card stuff was in college with a CGA card (it's a pain to
initialize 
one of those buggers without using bios calls).

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