I'm rather interested in starting a project to reverse engineer these blasted chips, but I'm somewhat more inclined to start a boycott of them instead.
For reverse engineering, I *think* the DLL has an EULA that doesn't let you do any sort of peeking into it, so for legal reasons, we might not be able to go that way. If anyone has more insight into that, it would be welcomed. If there is no easier option, then I was considering just making a FreeDOS-based system and hitting the hardware directly. I used to do that with old video chips, long long ago when I programmed for DOS in Pascal... > Hey Benjamin, > > I have one of these myself and I have tried looking up on reverse > engineering the windows xp driver. However I have found it very hard to do > so. The driver dll is stripped of all opengl function symbols, and exports > only symbols necessary to comply with the ICD architecture. > > OpenGL drivers on windows are written accordingly to the ICD architecture, > which has no open documentation out there. After hearing with microsoft a > license for a ICD development kit costs 5000 dollars, and one must have a > valid need for it! > > Do have any plans on making an effort reversing the SiS315? > > > /Cenk > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:14:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I've found myself in the unfortunate ownership of many of these pitiful >> SiS315-based cards and boards with onboard SiS video. I may be >> interested >> in reverse-engineering, as I rather like that sort of tedious work. >> however, after seeing as much as I have seen from these short-sighted >> companies, I think an organized boycott of SiS would be more effective >> for >> getting our hands on specs, or even a closed-source driver. >> >> their chipset quality is already extremely lacking, and they will have a >> really hard time beating VIA on, well, anything...and VIA is starting to >> release their stuff open-source! SiS doesn't have much to bargain with. >> >> I will help how I can... >> >> -Benjamin Vander Jagt >> > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
