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new driver? why? openchrome!new driver? why? openchrome!Posted Aug 31, 2008 2:19 UTC (Sun) by laf0rge (subscriber, #6469)In reply to: new driver? why? openchrome! by undefined Parent article: VIA releases open source Xorg driver
The drive is not "new". It is "new" that this driver is available in source code. VIA already used this very codebase (plus some proprietary 3D and TVout bits) to build their closed source Xorg drivers during recent years. Those drivers were (and still are) available for certain distributions.
So this should explain that this is not "a new driver" but actually something that has been around for many years.
And openly publishing the source of this driver is obviously just the first step. Now all involved parties can look at everyone's source base, and can start a discussion on how to proceed from here.
I would rather not see VIA trying to build a new community around that driver, since that would further fragment the various groups working on VIA graphics support.
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new driver? why? openchrome! Posted Aug 31, 2008 3:46 UTC (Sun) by wtogami (subscriber, #32325) [Link]
> And openly publishing the source of this driver is obviously just the
> first step. Now all involved parties can look at everyone's source > base, and can start a discussion on how to proceed from here.
> I would rather not see VIA trying to build a new community around
These comments are confusing. Does this mean the goal is NOT to create a single centralized and openly developed driver project? Please see my previous comment in this thread.
new driver? why? openchrome! Posted Aug 31, 2008 8:10 UTC (Sun) by laf0rge (subscriber, #6469) [Link]
I don't see any confusing statement.
I was merely saying that I would not think it was good to create a new, separate development community around this newly-opensource driver, but rather see integration with the existing open source community around VIA's graphics products.
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