"Graphics card maker XGI demonstrated its first PCI Express graphics card at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei. Code-named XG47, the new graphics chip is built in 130 nm, will target the entry-level segment, support DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 2.0 and integrate a 64-bit DRAM interface. ... " http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20 ... 51739.html
hmm, interesting. this movement for driver sources is really nice. but the devs should try to get the existing binary drivers working first. but maybe source could help tracking down problems with driver....
ROS will allow using drivers tht are used with Windows. THERE IS NO NEED of PORTING something, when it's working in Windows. Please understand that.
Porting is good for other OS.
At this point I guess the directX is still opengl directX. So interface between opengl and directX driver is require for a short cut or a port of driver from direct X to opengl. Note the port to build a interface for more use ie with windows drivers no directX but we have a opengl directX no problem.
Note porting parts out of the driver into our VGA driver to make it more directX/opengl compad. Is a option if the licence is inside range to be used.
its always better to have open source drivers. What is if you use reactos on powerpc? the binary drivers will not work!! thats the reason why open source is so important
Asraniel wrote:its always better to have open source drivers. What is if you use reactos on powerpc? the binary drivers will not work!! thats the reason why open source is so important
Well the PC hardware drivers won't work on PowerPC anyway, since the hardware is all new
Asraniel wrote:its always better to have open source drivers. What is if you use reactos on powerpc? the binary drivers will not work!! thats the reason why open source is so important
Well the PC hardware drivers won't work on PowerPC anyway, since the hardware is all new
No, the pci-port, usb-port, firewire-port should be the same, just the drivers differ.
Nicram wrote:ROS will be Windows NT compatible. Windows runs only on x86 CPUs
Nope, there you got it wrong, porting to other platforms is already started, yet only for fun/testing but I am confident we will se ReactOS for many different plattforms from Routers to Mainframe computers.
So far PPC and XBox is under development (xbox is x86 but different in many aspects).