Didn't find much in the wild, I did find that there are DRI/Linux
drivers for the Kryo and KyroII series chips.  Looks like the Kyro is
going down similar paths as Nvidia.  There's even a cute comment about
DRI in the README.

http://www.powervr.com/downloads.asp

-Al

On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 15:36, Jos� Fonseca wrote:
> On 2002.05.24 19:49 Al Tobey wrote:
> > Here's a stupid question:
> >   Are there any cards on the market, which don't already have DRI
> > drivers, that have publicly available specs?  I'll do some searching - a
> > card or two in this category would make a great training ground for some
> > new developers.
> > 
> > -Al Tobey
> > 
> 
> There isn't any I know, and I really doubt that you can find one. The 
> complexity of the recent cards make hardware vendors to be very concerned > in 
>protecting their intellectual property. For some cards, as you may 
> know, there isn't even open source drivers.
> 
> But if you really want to play with making DRI drivers with a card without 
> concerning about getting non-disclosable information then there is one 
> card where you can do that: the 3DFX Vodoo cards. The 3DFX DRI driver 
> still uses the deprecated GLIDE (which mask away some of the later models' 
> functionality) and it's needing a rewrite to eliminate this dependency. > The 3DFX 
>specs are available at http://www.medex.hu/~danthe/tdfx/ . I'm > sure that even if 
>you don't have one it should be easy to buy an used one 
> cheap.
> 
> I hope you find this useful and interesting!
> 
> Jos� Fonseca




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