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Free Software Friendly Graphics Card?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the open-everything dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There's an interesting discussion on KernelTrap with a hardware company that is talking about developing a 'free software friendly' graphics card. The idea is to fully disclose and document all register interfaces including the BIOS, providing Linux and BSD users with a fully supported video card. The hardware engineer proposing the idea summarizes his viewpoint saying, 'the whole issue comes down to this: This is technically feasible. Should we do it?'"

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  1. RTFA! please by Svet-Am · · Score: 5, Informative

    for those of us that read the article, we see that the entire nVidia/ATi argument is practically moot. the developer explicity says that the card will be primarily 2D because his employer won't give enough funding to produce an ASIC. Thus, they're using an FPGA and will only really be able to implement a 2D core.

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  2. Re:Secrets by Trejkaz · · Score: 5, Informative

    From 2002: Matrox continues to support the Linux community and is proud to release an open source driver for its flagship product Parhelia...

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