Open Graphics Project Status Update (KernelTrap)

Open Graphics Project Status Update (KernelTrap)

Posted Oct 5, 2005 15:49 UTC (Wed) by AJWM (subscriber, #15888)
In reply to: Open Graphics Project Status Update (KernelTrap) by job
Parent article: Open Graphics Project Status Update (KernelTrap)

I think by "end of an era" the original poster meant that the Radeon 9200 was the last chip for which specs were made available by the vendor. ATI stopped doing that after that model, and nVidia has never (or if so, not for years) made them available. (As in, made available not under an NDA that would prohibit open source code development.)

Drivers for anything after that have to rely on reverse engineering.

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