@Ratte
Thanks for the clear statement,I asked many times on amithlon-open and didnt get any responce.
I don't read or reply on that list any more because too many people used it to
demand I do things...
But ... hey ... i repeat my self and you got this bugreport last year ... and you promised a "bugfree" kernel for end 2006.
I know all about that bug, almost to the point of hating it. There is no 'bugfree' kernel because I have not been able to fix the bug, despite spending way too much time trying. If you check the mailing list archives you'll see that when talking about the next kernel I made it clear the Radeon pointer bug had not been fixed. That's still the case today.
To be honest, the Radeon driver was a bad mistake on my part. I've always tried to be clear that the purpose of the new kernel drivers
is to make it easier to build or buy a PC that runs Amithlon well, while also being useful for other things. So the GeForce FX driver already made it possible to build an Amithlon machine that has good 3D support. Strictly speaking, the Radeon driver was then unnecessary but I released it anyway, on the assumption that Radeon owners would regard even a low-performance, buggy driver as being better than VESA mode. But the storm of complaints suggests I was wrong on that point. I apologise to anyone who exected a perfectly working driver.
Its up to you .. it s your time and your hobby.
But i am a little bit angry about this "late" statement.
Okay, let me spell out my position here:
My work on the kernel is done purely to help the Amiga community, as a way of enabling people to run AmigaOS when otherwise they might not be able to. The whole project is done on a 'best effort' basis - I just do what I can. By all means report bugs or ask for some specific bit of hardware to be supported, but don't get pissed off if the bug remains unfixed or the hardware unsupported.
I have very limited time to work on the kernel (further reduced by recent periods of ill heath) and the work itself is nightmarish. You try writing drivers for undocumented hardware that run on top of a ancient kernel and have to interface with an almost undocumented and abandoned closed-source emulator, which hosts an old and abandoned OS, all of which communicates via a set of closed-source pseudo-drivers who's inner workings are unknown to all but the one person who wrote them.
That the results are sometimes a little ragged is, I hope, excusable given those circumstances.