28 Nov
2004
28 Nov
'04
4:02 p.m.
On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 13:50 -0500, Chris Metzler wrote:
Passing the info on to the DRI project folks got no
response at all; further queries revealed that the DRI project's
Matrox experts effectively aren't involved in the DRI project
anymore, so now no open source developers are working on the Matrox
drivers. A little bit of time spent in the XF86/X.org/DRI bug
tracking systems will show similar Matrox bugs that don't get any
responses from the developers.
According to the DRI folks, the issue here is that 3D drivers are
_hard_, and there are just not enough open source developers who have
the skills to fix these kinds of things. For example there are 3 or 4
3D chipsets for which we have docs but no driver.
So it's not quite as simple as "release some docs and the community will
write a driver".
Lee