From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 12 03:50:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA25220 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 May 1995 03:50:37 -0700 Received: from star-gate.com (hasty.vip.best.com [204.156.141.143]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA25210 for ; Fri, 12 May 1995 03:50:32 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by star-gate.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id DAA02656; Fri, 12 May 1995 03:40:36 -0700 Message-Id: <199505121040.DAA02656@star-gate.com> X-Authentication-Warning: star-gate.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6delta 4/7/95 To: Brian Tao cc: Pedro A M Vazquez , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The Case of Thomas Vs. E&S ([MESA:12] OpenGL for Linux ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 May 1995 16:51:29 +0800." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 03:40:32 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'll believe it when I see it. :) The Real3D card still has to > deal with the PC bus and memory architecture. How des Real3D (or ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Which will not be that much affected by the chipset because typically one issues a high level command to the card like draw polygon, etc.. > Martin Marietta) feel about releasing/licensing driver information to Well, if they received one request from me most likely they are not going to feel too compel to release any info. On the other hand they are in the business of selling the chipset so I will not be surprised if they actually let us have the info that we need to program their chipset. The worst case is that they may ask us to sign a NDA. Again, the low SGI machines are no where in the same league not sure what SGI is going to do about this nor do I care :) Amancio