I totally agree with Phi here.

As the author of three ATM drivers (which lie on the relatively
nasty side of networking interfaces) and one accelerated 3D graphics
driver (Permedia 2), I will attest to the fact that the <<accumulated>>
pain of bringing all three ATM drivers to a level of reliability suitable
for use in "production" environments was <<far less>> than than the
pain of bringing the Permedia 2 driver to a level of "will work for
some cool demos but is clearly not ready for prime time...."

Mike

Philip Brown wrote:
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 02:27:46PM +0100, Ian Molton wrote:
  
Theres *TONS* of other hardware [than video cards] that has open source
drivers that *totally* rock.
    

and the other hardware is a lot simpler to interface to.

Kinda like the difference between writing a image display program, and
writing a word processor, you might say.




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