[Open-graphics] Interested hacker

[Timothy Normand Miller]

On 10/14/07, zhengyi <goodmenlinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> By the way, I have a doubt about this project :
>
> Do the spcecifications of AGP PCIE and PCI is open ?
> are they protected by some patent ?

The specs are "open standards", although in order to get legal copies
of the specs, you have to purchase them from the PCI-SIG.  There's are
also a number of other books on it that essentially retell the spec.

No patents apply.

> If it does, the price of the final card will be more crazy.

I have written a PCI target, and the code for this is checked into our
SVN repository.  We are beholden to no one for use of this, other than
that we need to get a PCI SIG membership in order to get our own
vendor ID (minor detail).  But that's not terribly expensive.

-- 
Timothy Normand Miller
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti
Open Graphics Project