On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Yes, but that's really not my conception of "community supported". > And on a more pragmatic note, I see you never tried to make the > "poulsbo" driver (proprietary Intel driver for GMA500) work with an > up-to-date linux distribution. It's plainly impossible. >
I haven't had that particular pleasure but OpenBSD has been against "binary blob" drivers for some time and I can certainly see the wisdom in that. I was pretty impressed with Broadcom's Crystal HD chipset being released the way it was, however, as it's fully functional under Linux, OS X and Windows -- all of which have very different licensing schemes. But I don't know that it could be leveraged for X acceleration as it's geared toward HD codec functionality. I wish more chipset vendors would follow their lead. Alas, Intel has always been slow to adapt and used the proprietary mantra as their shield against anything they're unwilling to do. -Gary
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