From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konstantinos Margaritis To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: g200 hw 3d on powerpc Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 03:51:52 +0300 Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99053103585003.30874@proton> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hi, If anyone noticed, the g200-dev project is proceeding along very nicely (http://lists.openprojects.net/mailman/listinfo/g200-dev), and it's about writing a hw OpenGL driver for the Matrox G200 card. Now I don't really care about having a video card that will only work on linux (I think it does already on powerpc, using matroxfb) and both mac-on-linux and shapeshifter could make a mac card unnecessary even. I talked to some g200-dev developers and the opinions were divided. In particular, one thinks that fbdev+g200-glx will work, another one does not. The point is if a user-mode 3d driver, could access the raw hardware thru a fb device. I understand that the framebuffer gets mmap'd but what about the registers? Anyway, I hope you will see it's an important issue here. If this just works on one system, chances are that there will be more willing to buy the g200 (and even g400 which is also open-specs). - -- Konstantinos Margaritis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN1HeyvalfJok8qABAQGA5gP/dyDiQxixRc8ntxx/MPgHU7MR6sl78aVq EgXrfpsYb5p4kjCLPPcUpGIbU4ry+I/ManoebODIeQIBhgmilo8npp39l+sgNfrW +l6hXjKWSTHU+4Pym42VtodxbDBpvRb6NpHPNfbvi9USLL9jOzjrUPJdz54nBfYt NMc+zCrbmNQ= =kLLB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]