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Intel Gets Called Out Again For Their M.I.A. 3.0 X.Org Driver (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on from the never-forget dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The xf86-video-intel 3.0 DDX driver has been in development the past two and a half years without seeing an official release. The last development release even of xf86-video-intel 3.0 Git was 13 months ago with the xf86-video-intel 2.99.917 release. At that time it was said by Intel's lead DDX developer, "3 months have passed, we should make one more snapshot before an imminent release." Since then, there's been no communications about a stable release of this DDX driver that makes SNA the default acceleration architecture over UXA. Over on the intel-gfx mailing list users are bringing up again the state of xf86-video-intel 3.0 and why it isn't released yet, questioning if Intel is "able to maintain its own device driver in a usable way?"

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  1. Re:Heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oh yeah, that's right... they give away the chips for free...

  2. Re:Is it the year of the Linux desktop yet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uh, Intel developers are PAID developers to work on linux drivers for their hardware. It's not like they work on Linux stuff on a volunteer basis during their lunch break.

  3. Re:Heh by tlhIngan · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, there are still commits going into the git repo - so there's some work being done.

    If the complaint is that they haven't "released" anything In years, then well, it's OSS - technically you can call each new checkin a new release.

    So it's far from a dead project, and it'll be far from the only OSS project where the last release was years ago and everyone just pulls the latest source code and settles with that.

  4. Re:Just Install Windows Version Ten Point Zero by tarlek1234 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dear moderators, please vote my shit up. Thanks! :)