On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Xavier Bestel wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Yes, but that's really not my conception of "community supported".<br>
And on a more pragmatic note, I see you never tried to make the<br>
"poulsbo" driver (proprietary Intel driver for GMA500) work with an<br>
up-to-date linux distribution. It's plainly impossible.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Gary</div></div>