VIA Releases 800 Pages of Documentation For Linux

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday July 27, 2008 @12:13AM from the why-thank-you dept.

billybob2 writes "VIA has published three programming guides that total 800 pages in length and cover their PadLock, CX700, and VX800/820 technologies. The VIA PadLock provides a random number generator, an advanced cryptography engine, and RSA algorithm computations. The VX800 chipset was VIA's first Integrated Graphics Processor, while the CX700 is a System Media Processor designed for the mobile market. This is another step in VIA's strategy to support the development of Free and Open Source drivers under Linux, which comes pre-installed on VIA products such as the Sylvania NetBook, HP Mini-Note, 15.4" gBook, gPC, CloudBook, Zonbu, and VIA OpenBook. Earlier this week, VIA hired Linux kernel developer and GPL-Violations.org founder Harald Welte to be VIA's liason to the Open Source community."

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Re:linux? by bloodninja · 2008-07-27 00:26 · Score: 5, Informative

Now Linux drivers can be written for the hardware. Just like TFS says.

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That's just a mistake in TFS by BhaKi · 2008-07-27 02:45 · Score: 5, Informative

There is no such thing as OS-specific hardware documentation. The released documentation enables all interested OS-writers/driver-writers to write compatible software.

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