The "Bloody Mess" That Is Intel's Poulsbo Driver

Posted by kdawson on Saturday January 31, 2009 @08:40AM from the how-not-to dept.

AdamWill writes "Phoronix writes about the mess that is the Linux support situation for Intel's new graphics chipset, the GMA 500 — aka Poulsbo. Near the end they refer to my own post on the topic ('Okay, so after a whole day spent bashing around at this crap, I can very confidently and conclusively say, it's utterly broken'). Intel has a reputation as one of the most clued-up open source-friendly hardware companies, but if they can't sort out the mess surrounding the driver for this chipset — which is already used on the Dell Mini 12 and Sony Vaio P, and will be used on many future Intel-based systems — that reputation will take a serious hit."

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Re:Bit of a tangent by MostAwesomeDude · 2009-01-31 10:37 · Score: 5, Informative

You got modded up, so I get to correct you.
GEM (Graphics Execution Manager) is only working for Intel because they have more people working on it. There's only around four or five people working on Radeon stuff, and of those, only two of us are dedicated to ATI work, and we're both students.
If you grab development snapshots, you can see Radeons working with DRI2, GEM, KMS, and all that fancy stuff.

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