Anyone have thoughts on the S3/VIA GPUs?
(1) The openchrome(4) device driver claims support for Xv and XvMC:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=openchrome&sektion=4
From the stuff coming out today it looks like openchrome
is the driver that will get the development effort.
http://wiki.openchrome.org/pipermail/openchrome-devel/2008-November/000121.html
openchrome's TODO list:
http://wiki.openchrome.org/pipermail/openchrome-devel/2008-November/000121.html
(2) They have just released a bunch of documentation:
http://www.x.org/docs/via/
(3) A new "Chrome 500" GPU is out, $44.95 from the company's online store.
http://xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20081120120919_S3_Graphics_Reveals_New_Generation_Graphics_Processor.html
There is also some discussion on www.phoronix.com.
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