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VIA Secretly Has A Working Gallium3D Driver
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I had a look at the VIA binary driver; it's strictly Ubuntu-only. All the paths are hardcoded to those found in Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distributions:
Haven't downloaded the source code from VIA's portal yet but judging by how small the source zipfile is (less than 2mb) im a bit dubious about whether it contains the full stack, and whether it can even compile on a non-Ubuntu system.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostPersonally I could care less if it's open source or not, as long as it falls under free to use and free to redistribute then that's fine with me. I'm just glad VIA finally has something that works. The most I knew of VIA's capabilities were KMS support and unaccelerated 1080p support. So, to see 3D acceleration working is very nice and now VIA is more considerable as a linux platform. To me it never made sense why they put so much effort toward Windows. VIA is popular in places where Windows 85%+ market share and Windows in general is a little too heavy to VIA's products.
I would have consideres via a bit if that would be opensource, but even than I dont think they build good hardware.
But I was curious because I thought gallium3d is for free drivers only. because its a bit stupid, when you then have a opensoruce statetracker that enables hardware-independend stuff, that closedsource driver could use that I would think is absurd.
But then its like bsdish, you give your enemy the sword to kill you, a bit like catolish philosophy ^^.
But ok... but then another question, nvidia did always make 99% own x-stack because whatever because they suck or something or mesa had the wrong lisense or whatever... so why do neither nvidia nor amd have plans to make better drivers by rewrite their garbage-blobs to gallium? thought its because of this lisences.
Or do they want to port windows to linux basicly so they dont have to programm 2 different drivers.
So Ubuntu/Nvidia/Windows/Linux... nice love it (ironie off)
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Originally posted by blackiwid View PostBut I was curious because I thought gallium3d is for free drivers only.
so why do neither nvidia nor amd have plans to make better drivers by rewrite their garbage-blobs to gallium? thought its because of this lisences.
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Originally posted by duby229 View PostI have read here on phoronix about an embedded mobile GPU that AMD was responsible for that uses a gallium driver for windows. I forget the details but it was here on phoronix that I read about it.
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Originally posted by Nille_kungen View PostMaybe it was the Windows Embedded Compact 7 (WEC7) graphics driver.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...amd_linux_wec7Test signature
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostPersonally I could care less if it's open source or not, as long as it falls under free to use and free to redistribute then that's fine with me. I'm just glad VIA finally has something that works. The most I knew of VIA's capabilities were KMS support and unaccelerated 1080p support. So, to see 3D acceleration working is very nice and now VIA is more considerable as a linux platform. To me it never made sense why they put so much effort toward Windows. VIA is popular in places where Windows 85%+ market share and Windows in general is a little too heavy to VIA's products.
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