Looks like all the major players, AMD/ATI, Intel and now VIA have released technical specifications.. I remember a few years ago the situation was simple: "No acceleration!" but clearly times have changed and I'm looking forward to seeing hobby OS's being able to offer a decent end-user experience on workstations.
So... end of my little rant.. here are the links.
http://www.x.org/docs/via/
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... v_20&num=1
Past announcements about other vendors:
http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16309
http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16067
VIA Releases NDA-free GPU documentation..
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Re: VIA Releases NDA-free GPU documentation..
More pressure on NVidia to do the same
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Hi,
Cheers,
Brendan
Sure - now that VIA have released a register reference guide (which doesn't include any other information, unlike Intel's guides) I'll have completely stable device drivers (including full support for 3D acceleration, anti-aliasing, fog, etc; and a "shader language" compiler) ready to release next week...Brynet-Inc wrote:Looks like all the major players, AMD/ATI, Intel and now VIA have released technical specifications.. I remember a few years ago the situation was simple: "No acceleration!" but clearly times have changed and I'm looking forward to seeing hobby OS's being able to offer a decent end-user experience on workstations.
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Brendan
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Re: VIA Releases NDA-free GPU documentation..
Please remember to wash your hands.Brendan wrote:I'll have completely stable device drivers (including full support for 3D acceleration, anti-aliasing, fog, etc; and a "shader language" compiler) ready to release next week...