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

I wouldn't say it is ugly, in fact it's probably the tidiest code I've
ever seen.  It's just to complicated for a simple hacker like me. ;-)

Euan

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On Tuesday 02 March 2004 09:00 pm, Axel Dörfler wrote:
> "Euan Kirkhope" <euank@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Hm, all I know is that Thomas is way busy. He still answers to eMails,
> but it can take some months 8-)
> If he no longer has the time to maintain the driver, it would be great
> if we could take over his latest version. Of course, we can also use
> the latest driver sources from him found on BeBits, but those are not
> necessarily up to date (new source releases obviouly must be "signed"
> by ATI first, something they seem to be very slow at).
>

I think our best bet is to work with the sources that are on bebits, and

update when/if we hear back from Thomas (I sent him an email a few weeks

ago).  Even if it is ugly, I think I still take a crack at looking at it
so I 
can get a bit more variety than just app_server graphics routines.

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