GPL RTG driver information available

[wawrzon]

It's definitely a step in the best direction, assuming it's legitimate, because Aros has a very similar API.

i think in fact both p96 and aros cybergraphics were designed to be api compatible with cgx.

The downside is trying to run CGX on most PCI boards because the closed source drivers are all for P96.

You can't use those on CGX, right? I've only used CGX once or twice over the years, so I'm not that familiar.

aros also provides p96 wraper for its cybergraphics, which is open code, so in theory it might be ported in order to user p96 driver files furrther.

however we are still not talking of freeing the current cgx sources here, these are property and part of morpos theam and their work and i hardly believe they are going to give up on this just like that.

[wawrzon]

I think the idea that somebody may have disassembled his older Picasso-to-become-CGFX for creating the picasso we know is interesting, too. It was already indicated that the latter  is not free from other people's "contributions"...

i think its a quick assumption, hard to prove either way anymore. it might have been clean room as well. dont just take sides because it suits your views.

[wawrzon]

things like that shouldnt be rushed but approached in a systemathical way. otherwise they will end up as straw fire anyway.

[wawrzon]

@ratte
the problem is this relies on pci bus, while on amiga this is only one option how a rtg card is fitted into a system. except of zorro cads (like these gba cards, the matze one or the oane of lukas/mntmn) there is for instance the apollo framebuffer, which also doenst talk over pci.

we need well structured overall solution/concept that can be easily filled in also by independent contributors.

[wawrzon]

i think we may have to wait a little. there was a hefty discussion on a1k, which result may be that the community will be offered to open source p96 for a certain price, even if i consider this unlikely anymore. if p96 will be handed over to another party or company it might really occur necessary. especially for the rtg solution vendors to reach for some oprn solution themselves, which most conveniently could be based on aros as it seems.

[wawrzon]

Has anyone considered a white room implementation ?

N

clean room? aros is such. what concerns p96 mntmn is putting now his own p96 compatible headers on a public repo.

[wawrzon]

As you, I wouldn't put my hopes on it and certainly not stop a project because of it. Right now there is some momentum which should be used before it's lost.

what concerns momentum. one simply needs to start work on it. i have notified lukas about these threads, but i think he probably prefers to work, rather than to post around in amiga forums.