Good news: real display driver coming up

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Timon_and_Pumba
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Good news: real display driver coming up

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Although it will not be available tomorrow, news is that Intel will provide a (good) working driver for the Gallium3D framework.
If this new driver stack really ends up shipping by the end of this year or early next year, it will likely be the first complete driver that's showing off the Gallium3D architecture. Assuming everything works as planned, this will be quite the change from the current state of the Poulsbo Linux driver, albeit the Gallium3D bits will be closed off. The new kernel code that supports Moorestown and Sodaville along with KMS, TTM, SFI, and HW encoder support is also intriguing as well as their new DRI2-supportive X.Org driver.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... &px=NzY2Mg

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