[Open-graphics] Press release, VGA project, need to make progress

[Russell Shaw]

Timothy Normand Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Russell Shaw <rjshaw at netspace.net.au> wrote:
> 
>>> I'm glad to hear that your work wasn't impeded by our slowness.
>> I would have got vga functionality working to some degree before
>> any press releases because that would acid test for any bugs as
>> well as being easier to sell.
>>
>> I never needed strict "vga" anyway. Just a framebuffer that
>> can do 24bit color at 1280x1024. It would be a starting point
>> for many other things.
> 
> Maybe I'm in a bad mood, but you sound like you're being very critical
> of something that's harder to do than you may realize.  It sounds like
> you have been waiting for us to finish something so that you could use
> it, and then you got angry that we didn't do it quickly enough for
> you.  What have you contributed that makes you so entitled?  Why are
> you making demands on us, and why haven't I noticed you pitching in
> any code that would help us move along faster?

> Certainly, you're not the only person to make suggestions without
> contributing code, art, text, or any other original material.  But
> many suggestions, such as the recent one by Roger Luethi, are
> insightful because they show concern for our success and discuss
> high-level strategy about things where we're clearly not mindful of
> the right thing to do.  Your suggestion to "do VGA first" is out of
> turn because we already very well know that this is important to do,
> and we have already acid-tested the hardware.  We welcome your
> criticism, but we prefer it when it's constructive.

Hi,
The main thing was to having something basic working so that i could
experiment with graphical windowing alterations in the way X worked,
as well as having a real driver that could be used.

I've programmed xilinx and altera fpgas before, but is completely
tangential to what i'm working on.

The faster hardware gets, the more stupid programmers become, which
is why X and everything on top it runs slower and bloated than ever
despite hardware accelerated 3D cards.

With decent programming, a 2D card can do everything one wants for
a 3D-look desktop that doesn't involve real-time movements like
those cube gimmicks on some openGL compositing managers. Those are
just a non-productive gimmick anyway.