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

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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Reputation?

[clang_jangle]

I thought the intel video chipset reputation was already something like "it sucks, ATI or nvidia are much better choices".

Wonder if this is one of the reasons?

[HangingChad]

Microsoft threatening Intel unless they knock off the Linux integration. Now, all of a sudden, Intel is having all kinds of problems with their Linux drivers.

Coincidence or anti-competitive behavior in action?