[Openchrome-users] OpenChrome and 775VM800 - Progress

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 06:23:21AM +0100, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> 
> Luc:
> It's amazing that this never settles.
> 
As long as the problem exists, it won't settle.

> Yes. VBE _is_ hampering development of output support on the Unichromes.
> Under some circumstances it might even be justified to call it a rot in
> the driver. I think most people that have read your reasoning agrees.
> 
> However, None of the Unichrome Pro TV-out support fixes would have
> happened without VBE modes, and I also believe that most people reading

I remember reworking your VBE code, so that, amongst a lot of cleanups, 
it also allowed for registers to be dumped. It was by no means your 
intention when you wrote your initial code.

> this agree that wilfully hiding features from users in order to have a
> greater chance of receiving hardware donations to implement proper
> modesetting is not the right way to go.

Apart from those few minor changes, what else has changed since then?
The drive that was there before has gone completely. Now even small 
issues are impossible to fix without the hardware.

> 
> An idea that came up on XDevConf was to brand hardware Xorg compliant. A
> little logo goes with it. Although the idea was initially targeted at
> broken KVMs that would not let through EDID information, why not include
> free modesetting for all supported output devices. That would target the
> hardware manufacturers instead of our own users.
> 
> /Thomas

By the time that happens, we're several unichrome generations further 
again, or VIA has stopped pushing unichrome for deltachrome altogether.

Luc Verhaegen