From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 08:35:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D9216A402 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:35:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yann@raven.kierun.org) Received: from raven.kierun.org (raven.yorksj.ac.uk [193.61.234.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C4EC13C45E for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:35:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yann@raven.kierun.org) Received: from yann by raven.kierun.org with local (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HROxB-000Gxg-BY; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:35:25 +0000 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:35:25 +0000 From: Yann Golanski To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070314083525.GA65136@kierun.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: "Yann Golanski, University of York, +44(0)1904-433088" Cc: Subject: Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:35:22 -0000 --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quoth Nikolas Britton on Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 14:58:34 -0500 > We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer > documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD > or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem. It is not a problem but a marketing decision we know nothing about. I have seen Linux drivers, Windows drivers and Mac drivers from their site. I am sure that if we asked in a reasonable and polite fashion we could convince them to release the drivers for *BSD -- or make the Linux ones in such a way that they work on *BSD. =20 Hounding them is not going to help. It will harm our cause. > Give him your two cents. Please, do not do that. It will hinder. --=20 yann@kierun.org -=3D*=3D- www.kierun.= org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFF97PN91FwBp3iYxgRAk4eAJ4mL6DxawXyIsLbA4+532jhpaZ3UACdH2Mq p4nxe0tze82+L4L/oGL31+Q= =fm8i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC--