AMD deciding _now_ what to do about Linux

[Garrett Cooper]

Sam Lawrance wrote:
>
> On 16/06/2007, at 6:07 AM, youshi10 at u.washington.edu wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Ali Mashtizadeh wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Sun's pushing ATI/AMD to provide good drivers for Solaris, so it 
>>> means they
>>> will have to work on the portability issue of their drivers. It is 
>>> probably
>>> the best time to influence AMD's decision since they are going to do 
>>> what
>>> Sun tells them. Nvidia has an easier time porting their drivers 
>>> since the
>>> core of the driver is the same across all platforms AFAIK. 
>>> Hopefully, they
>>> will realize the best stratedgy is to open source their drivers, 
>>> which there
>>> has been some hints about it recently.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Ali Mashtizadeh
>>> علی مشتی زاده
>>>
>>> On 6/15/07, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 02:03:39PM -0400, Ali Mashtizadeh wrote:
>>>> >  Hey everyone,
>>>> >
>>>> >  This email went out on Xorg I thought it might be useful for all 
>>>> of us
>>>> stuck
>>>> >  with ATI cards. We should all show our interest in AMD helping 
>>>> out the
>>>> BSD
>>>> >  community as well! Just like Nvidia has been doing!
>>>>
>>>> "Linux strategy" -- gotta love the use of the word "strategy", like
>>>> they're playing chess or Risk or Daisenryaku.  Yes, because supporting
>>>> an operating system involves "strategy".
>>>>
>>>> Not to sound rude, but I wouldn't hold your breath over the statement.
>>>> Yes, *absolutely* mail them and show support for the BSDs, and tell 
>>>> them
>>>> you'll be happy to beta test whatever they put out (as long as they 
>>>> have
>>>> a good feedback method for reporting those bugs; not some defunct HTML
>>>> form web page that sends submissions to /dev/null).
>>>>
>>>> I believe AMD/ATI cares about providing a good driver base (for Linux
>>>> and probably the BSDs), but no matter how many customers mail them, 
>>>> the
>>>> reality of the situation is a disappointing one: managers and 
>>>> executives
>>>> of sorts are who have say over all of this, who decide all of this, 
>>>> and
>>>> who ultimately make the statements on all of this.  As a Texan 
>>>> co-worker
>>>> of mine says, "too many chiefs, not enough indians".  nVidia has the
>>>> same "problem", for what it's worth.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> | Jeremy Chadwick                                    jdc at 
>>>> parodius.com |
>>>> | Parodius Networking                           
>>>> http://www.parodius.com/ |
>>>> | UNIX Systems Administrator                      Mountain View, 
>>>> CA, USA |
>>>> | Making life hard for others since 1977.                  PGP: 
>>>> 4BD6C0CB |
>>
>> 1. This shouldn't have been sent to the hackers@ list, because it's 
>> more of a discussion than a technical topic.
>> 2. Please top post.
>>
>> Disregarding those 2 comments, I have a few thoughts:
>
> I'd certainly disregard that second point.
>
> :-)
Yes.

s/top post/don't top post/

-Garrett