Quoting Michael Lorenz <macallan%NetBSD.org@localhost>:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On May 30, 2008, at 15:08, telmnstr%757.org@localhost wrote:Here is a question, with the end of the MIPS line of SGI systems, is SGI going to release any of the information on driving the older high end video cards? Realty Engines and what not? Or do they still consider that trade secrets?That's a question to ask them, not us. We don't know anything about their plans regarding this.
My impression has long been that few employees from that era remain and perhaps even fewer documentation still exists. Five years ago an engineer was kind enough to transcribe bits of an _old_ spec to HTML, but he only had permission to release about half of it. The physical document itself was apparently quite difficult to come by.
I imagine we're basically SOL. The best hope would be for SGI to release driver source and other old IRIX bits that are clearly not derived from any other code. For the stuff we'd be interested in, I imagine this is mostly the case, but doing so officially would require expense on their part for no benefit.
Steve
have fun Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQEVAwUBSEBTKspnzkX8Yg2nAQJn9ggAmMDQxo0vTslcAMFGrdP6D3INZ0dXVj5s hauWkr/sfHNShKxWQZ4r5zawJlQYSQCIZK2APIv9rpV2z9x91/q54CSHNXCQFC+c x9gcYbg5erhubP/r3mFzSeGREN3R2dXMr94PYxXqx7H+oC7MMS1JEQ4XinsmFqSW z7tsLnGbuheD8/QnZlUo1RJzEWo8WLy1U1rhs+W1cFod2QAi3B+nXdruwdBd4u+c 1V2aBfq61txVOWk118jpjuGFjEQMaWeEaWiivvzhL2x9kczMzZjNaZ6R/vsK5R7g h0bILSYuh4UplL1f5kH6qrhLdwcMLh4idMCC6ilSaGZdQftTERJZwQ== =zFWd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----