VIA Releases 16K-Line FOSS Framebuffer Driver

Posted by kdawson on Sunday May 11, 2008 @08:41AM from the can-only-get-better-from-here dept.

billybob2 writes "VIA has released 16,434 Lines Of Free & Open Source code that enables Linux natively to use the framebuffer on VIA's graphics chipsets. This comes a month after VIA announced that it will provide Open-Source drivers and documentation on its Web site so that its hardware will work out of the box with Linux distributions. This gives VIA-powered systems that come pre-installed with Linux — such as the gPC, 15.4" gBook, CloudBook, and Zonbu — the ability to output graphics through digital connections such as HDMI, and probably makes them the best-supported framebuffers Linux has ever had. Look forward to documentation and X.org drivers from VIA as well in the near future."

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Slashdot == press release wire by ikeleib · 2008-05-11 10:34 · Score: 0, Troll

This post just gushes about VIA. Since when did slashdot become a site for vendors to have their sock puppets write glowing posts for them?

probably makes them the best-supported framebuffers Linux has ever had

Give me a break.