On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 11:03 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > Yes, it more or less does; that's why they sub-contracted the > development, the hardware is substantially different from previous Intel > chips, and the existing Linux development team within Intel didn't have > much familiarity with it, and was too busy to drop everything and learn > about this new hardware. So they contracted development out to a group > who are very familiar with the PowerVR hardware, but apparently think a > driver which relies on a libdrm branch and three separate chunks of > proprietary code (not to mention a badly-written kernel module just to > make 2D work) is a sensible design. More accurately, that's what Tungsten _had_ to implement, because Imagination (the PowerVR people) were unwilling or unable to allow open code. > I've been told, though, that the GMA500 is actually a Frankenstein > design, with the PowerVR 3D (and hardware video playback acceleration) > core glued on to a standard Intel 2D core, so if that's accurate, it > should be reasonably easy to come with at least a basic native > accelerated 2D driver which doesn't depend on all the horrible > proprietary crack, which would be fine for a lot of people. The 3D and > video playback acceleration features are nice, but not essential. It'd > be nice if Intel would just kick out a driver like that, at least. IIRC it's an Intel-ish output block, but PVR acceleration blocks (both 2D and 3D). Not quite the same thing. - ajax
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