> John Watlington wrote: >> The enabling chipset is hot off the fab line, the VX855 [2]. This >> single chip provides ... a 3D graphics engine, an HD >> video decoder > > It's worth remembering that the only existing driver that supports either > of these features is a pure binary blob. The Openchrome drivers have no > 3D support, never mind video decode support. Even their Xv support is > glitchy. > > In other words, this GPU represents a regression, compared to the Geode > LX, unless you're willing to run with (famously unreliable, unsupported) > binary-only drivers. > > So don't get too excited.
But this should improve with VIA now having employed Harald Welte of gnuviolations.org fame to help them move forward in the open source world. They have released their drivers and some manuals for their GPUs now. So no 3D just yet, but then that's not exactly a regression compared to the geeode video either. Details of Harald's VIA related OSS releases can be seen at the link below including links to various HW programming manuals. Peter http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/linux/via/index.html _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel