Funding Radeon driver development

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:00:20AM +0800, Anders Johansson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Another interesting point made was that if Tungsten Graphics had access 
> > to hardware specifications for later cards, they would be able to secure 
> > commercial funding to work on it again! But anyway, we know the 
> > likelihood of this happening at the moment ...
> 
> Wouldn't it be possible to ask the Linux foundation for help. They
> have a NDA program for things like this, and provides help to
> developers for securing hardware documentation from difficult
> companies, see: http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/NDA_program

Don't worry, people are talking to AMD about this program, you aren't
the first to point this out by a long shot :)

But, it's very slow going for a variety of reasons, all out of my hands
at this point in time...

thanks,

greg k-h