From owner-freebsd-current  Fri Feb 13 13:33:03 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12725
          for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 13:33:03 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA12648
          for <current@FreeBSD.ORG>; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 13:32:42 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net)
Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36])
	by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA10148;
	Fri, 13 Feb 1998 21:32:36 GMT
Received: (from eivind@localhost)
	by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id WAA05867;
	Fri, 13 Feb 1998 22:32:36 +0100 (MET)
Message-ID: <19980213223236.56066@follo.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 22:32:36 +0100
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Linux GGI
References: <199802130246.TAA11073@usr07.primenet.com> <199802130356.TAA05232@rah.star-gate.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i
In-Reply-To: <199802130356.TAA05232@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 07:56:08PM -0800
Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 07:56:08PM -0800, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> 
> Yes, I have known about them for a little while . Doing low level
> graphics chipset support is not an easy job and requires highly skilled 
> and dedicated personnel.

Eh?  Unless some magic has happened during the last year or so (which
was when I stopped doing this), it isn't really a hard problem, just a
lot of work.  There are other areas (protocol implementations come to
mind) where there are _much_ larger dragons.

But there are a lot of chipsets these days - even if each one isn't a
really hard problem, tackling all of them require either a lot of
dedication or a lot of personell, or preferably both.

Eivind.

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message