The abrupt merging of Nouveau

Posted Dec 16, 2009 1:47 UTC (Wed) by josh (subscriber, #17465)
In reply to: The abrupt merging of Nouveau by Banis
Parent article: The abrupt merging of Nouveau

No other vendor has choose to support Linux as a primary driver platform.

You mean like how Intel supports all their graphics chipsets before they even get released to the public, and releases actual *documentation* for their chipsets, not just drivers? Not to mention driving much of the innovation in the X Window System.

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The abrupt merging of Nouveau

Posted Dec 16, 2009 4:19 UTC (Wed) by kragil (guest, #34373) [Link] (3 responses)

fail

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/12/poulsbo-m...

The abrupt merging of Nouveau

Posted Dec 20, 2009 9:27 UTC (Sun) by johnflux (guest, #58833) [Link] (2 responses)

How is that a fail? Intel does support of their chipset, but the graphics chip you linked to is done by Imagination Technologies. Intel has little say on whether Imagination Technologies release their drivers, although they have been trying to pressure them. (I used to work for Imagination Technologies)

The abrupt merging of Nouveau

Posted Dec 21, 2009 12:13 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Intel's failure is primarily in branding. I used to be able to point to Intel as the brand you can trust and buy to be working out of the box with free and open source drivers in all Linux distributions. That's not the case anymore.

The abrupt merging of Nouveau

Posted Dec 22, 2009 15:43 UTC (Tue) by hammers (guest, #62633) [Link]

"Intel has little say on whether Imagination Technologies release their drivers, although they have been trying to pressure them"

Really ? You used to work for IMG ? And you come out with a comment like that ?

Really ??