CGX 4 and P96 SDK

[Piru]

What´s the chances of tracking up current rights holders, and persuade them to GPL it for AmigaOS 3.x?

CGX is unlikely to go GPL, but as you can see from the ref3 it's no problem (in that particular case).

[Piru]

the permission to freely distribute CGX 4 binaries

No permission granted.

and of course its sdk.

No permission granted.

[Piru]

well, not likely but lets assume some third party mad activist like cosmos suddenly issued a proper driver?

How would that be possible considering Elbox doesn't give out any HW documentation?

[Piru]

open pci?

OpenPCI doesn't support mediator.

Information: The mediator support of a well-known company is definitively canceled because of their poor developer policy and their questionable attitude towards customers.

Elbox was very clear when they did their menaces. They allow him to write drivers for mediator, but not to write something like openpci. Even if this can give them more drivers later. It's nice to see the same driver running on all the differents bus. Titan's rtl8139 driver is even currently developped on a mediator1200. But openpci will not be released for Mediator, so no rtl8139 driver for Mediator in the final release. Same thing for the OCHI USB drivers, nothing for Mediator. Elbox doesn't allow it.

The obvious reason Elbox doesn't want this is that they sell expensive kits of (modified) common PC hardware and drivers tied to this hardware. OpenPCI would kill this market for them.

[Piru]

What does the CGX superlayers do?

It replaces layers.library with a faster one. Also the replacement has support for simple (1-bit) transparency.

Superlayers and layers.library itself isn't related to blitting at all.