Re: New ATI FireGL driver supports 2.6 kernel

Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-09T08:51:08Z

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 02:04:47AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Maw, 2003-09-09 at 00:07, Dennis Freise wrote:
> > > Since all compoments do work on W*nd*ws, I seriously wonder how much M$ pays
> > > to ATI to prevent linux-driver development.
> >
> > Official conspiracy theory:
> > ATI do open source drivers
> > ATI reported to be winning Xbox next gen contract
> > ATI do binary drivers
> >
> > although I don't belive it to be the case. NVidia and ATI are locked in
> > a mad battle to win the video space. Relax buy slower intel stuff and
> > wait for commoditisation of onboard video to eliminate them both 8)
>
> So when will AMD get in the game? ;)

I guess as soon as they can put enough transistors on one die to accomodate
dual cores, 8 MB L2 cache, and a graphics core...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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