[News] SciTech Software Inc. announcement | ANN.lu |
Posted on 18-Feb-2003 21:36 GMT by Gareth Knight | 195 comments View flat View list |
SciTech Software Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment VOF are pleased to announce they have enterered into a strategic partnership which will see SciTech's SNAP(tm) technology integrated into AmigaOS 4.x which is currently under development by Hyperion for PPC based systems.
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SciTech Software Inc. announcement : Comment 69 of 195 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Max on 19-Feb-2003 06:45 GMT | In reply to Comment 62 (Seehund): "SNAP seems to be 2D drivers only, and there are already open sourced 2D nVidia (and ATI, but that goes without saying) drivers available (Linux, XF86, and in contrast to SNAP those already exist in PPC versions)."
If you are speaking about the NVidia Linux drivers, they are only partially open sourced. Only the XF86 module that communicate with the real kernel driver is open sourced. But not the kernel driver.
And this part is useless, it's just a stupid simply interface so that XF86 can communicate with the kernel driver which is not open source.
Don't worry NVidia take care to not let people access chipsets information. You won't see any recent NVidia chipsets drivers open sourced. (I mean a driver that support the chipset fully, i.e with all the acceleration. Yes on Linux there is lot of open source drivers for NVidia but they use standard acceleration and does not take advantages of chipset specific accelerations). Btw I hope they'll have also the chipsets documentation as you know AmigaOS is not working like Linux, Linux driver sources is not enough to make AmigaOS drivers. It require additional information about the chipsets. And this I doubt they've them. |
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