Someone explain to me why an organised boycott of SiS graphics chips would somehow ENCOURAGE them to help?
Reducing their sales means they have a vat of new excuses for not supporting you. -- Matt Sealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Manager, Genesi, Developer Relations > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 11:54 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: need help writing driver for SiS m650 > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- 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=20 -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
