Trident driver
Mike A. Harris
mharris@www.linux.org.uk
Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:05:06 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Eric Anholt wrote:
>> That hasn't been my experience. Alan Hourihane is the only
>> person I'm aware of that has managed to squeeze documentation out
>> of Trident. I tried to get docs about 2 years ago, but had a bad
>> experience, and never bothered to try again since then. Perhaps
>> things are different now however and it's worth trying again.
>
>OK, I meant for this specific chipset. I had been handed the docs
>earlier without even an NDA, and at some point at least they were
>publicly available on VIA's website.
>
>Ah, here:
>http://www.viavpsd.com/product/Download.jsp?motherboardId=21
>
>If we can get the 2d working, I'd be interested in hooking up Blend
>acceleration for it. That would increase my motivation to figure out
>how to do general Composites using two Blend stages and a scratch area,
>too. Maybe I'll dig my broken 2d code out now and see if I can find
>obvious errors.
Ah, VIA's a bit different. ;o) They've been very OSS friendly
in the last year or so. I've got a few PDFs of theirs also,
possibly the same ones you have.
Alan has been doing a fair bit of work on the EPIA boards lately,
and has 3D accel working now (with XFree86). It'd be nice to
assimilate him into fd.o xserver hacking. ;o)
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Mike A. Harris