17 Years Later: Intel 865 Chipset Seeing FBC Enabled On Linux

[wdb974]

No it's just a flyby. Knowing how these things usually go, it's probably breaking it, but since none of the people that so vehemntly want long support like that and whine in forums constantly actually don't have so old hardware anyway, none will notice for a few years, at the very least, if ever.

The articles does make it sound like a flyby. But hey, if we can get the full feature set on a given piece of hardware, that's a good thing.

Although you're right about the harsh reality (i.e. potential crashes and not many users if at all).

[starshipeleven]

Could it be embedded use?

No it's just a flyby. Knowing how these things usually go, it's probably breaking it, but since none of the people that so vehemntly want long support like that and whine in forums constantly actually don't have so old hardware anyway, none will notice for a few years, at the very least, if ever.

[Raka555]

This is why I am not an Intel hater.
They really do a great job supporting their hardware on Linux.

BTW I still have an E6600 on a G965 chipset that I use as my NAS.

[DanL]

Were those graphics really extreme anyway?

Only compared to previous Intel GPU's. (And you had to be elite enough to find the secret BIOS setting and increase the video RAM. Otherwise, games might get confused by the DVMT scheme and refuse to run.)

[jabl]

This topic has nothing to do with what you said.

You're right. Lets get back to ranting about systemd and Lennart. This is phoronix after all.

[S.Pam]

Could it be embedded use?

[wizard69]

But at the same time, knowing that aging hardware like this will remain maintained and supported is why anything *but* Linux is an afterthought for the server market.

This isn't so much support as it is adding new functionality. Honestly I'm hoping that this enablement is the fallout of other bug fixes and that the developers did not spend a lot of time on it. I just see it as a waste of time going that back into history to support hardware that realistically should not be running any more. Seriously the power usage alone is enough to justify replacement.

[tildearrow]

Typo:

That was finally ironed out in recent years for BroadwelL~Skylake and newer.

Were those graphics really extreme anyway?

[Azrael5]

Just in time... 🤣

[DanL]

<trolling>

This topic has nothing to do with what you said.