> Is there any set length of time before you consider working on a piece of hardware? > Im just wondering if newer hardware is left until its been around a long time or do > you guys work on creating drivers for them and then release them after a certain > amount of years?
In general nobody starts a driver until most of the games on it are safe under the 3 year rule. And drivers are submitted early and often because it's too painful to maintain things out of tree when Aaron and Atari Ace are gunning for core changes in every version. In other words, what you see in the whatsnew (and the developer WIP pages) is what you get.