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Wunderkind?
by ac on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @07:14
"Zack volunteered to port all unmaintained graphic card drivers as soon as he gets the respective hardware in his hands"

Where did Zack suddenly get the whole knowledge to promise and do something like that? I didn't know him doing any hardware driver development before...
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Re: Wunderkind?
by Anonymous on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @07:34
Do you think that he knew something about Mozilla code before hacking on it at aKademy? :-)
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Re: Wunderkind?
by Nicolai Haehnle on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @08:18
When he says "port", he really means switch some function calls around so it uses the Exa framework instead of XAA. Only the most basic primitive will actually be accelerated in hardware (and even then, only if the driver already accelerated them before).

Porting a driver to Exa appears to be really simple, due to clever design by Zack, so porting a driver is mostly a formality. Still, you obviously need to have the hardware and do testing on it (which is usually the far more time-consuming part in driver development if it's to be done right).
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Re: Wunderkind?
by Morty on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @08:19
It's not needed because of the way he implemented Exa, from the anoncement "Note that you don't have to be a driver developer to switch any of those drivers."
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  • Re: Wunderkind?
    by ac on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @08:35
    But it's Zack himself who made that possible so he has to already have quite a knowledge about the whole graphic card driver architecture which again involves plenty of hardware details.
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Re: Wunderkind?
by clee on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @13:16
Zack is not really human. He's the last member of an advanced überprogramming alien race, kind of like Superman but with a text editor instead of laser eyes.

His only weakness? Battlestar Galactica.
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