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Basic Linux Boot On Open Graphics Card

Posted by timothy on from the bumblebee-flies-anyway dept.

David Vuorio writes "The Open Graphics Project aims to develop a fully open-source graphics card; all specs, designs, and source code are released under Free licenses. Right now, FPGAs (large-scale reprogrammable chips) are used to build a development platform called OGD1. They've just completed an alpha version of legacy VGA emulation, apparently not an easy feat. This YouTube clip shows Gentoo booting up in text mode, with OGD1 acting as the primary display. The Linux Fund is receiving donations, so that ten OGD1 boards can be bought (at cost) for developers. Also, the FSF shows their interest by asking volunteers to help with the OGP wiki."

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  1. Hey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Cool story bro.

  2. Re:A milestone? by ypctx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, second step is Open Source Factories.

  3. Re:A milestone? by Kotoku · · Score: 5, Funny

    Step 1: Open Graphics Card Step 2: Open Source Factories Step 3: ???? Step 4: Communism!

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  4. Re:Do we want an open source video card? by atraintocry · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is why I love Slashdot: lazy Saturday, talking about video cards, not even 100 posts up yet...

    BAM! Godwin!