Intel Valley View SDV Powers On With X.Org

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Valley View SDV Powers On With X.Org

There's a new Intel X.Org driver release which now allows the Valley View software development vehicle to light up...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE4NjY

[willmore]

As someone who owns a Sandy Bridge ultrabook (though currently its got Win7 cuz power management's a mess under Linux) im glad to see Chris continuing to make fast changes and fast updates to fix bugs. Hopefully by the time Linux is on this the driver will be in an even better shape than it already is.

Keep up the good work Chris!

As an owner of an SB based laptop (B940), power management has been wonderful for about the last month on Fedora 17. You might want to give it a try! BL went from 2.5h to just shy of 5h!

Question for Michael. What's SDV?

[Ericg]

As someone who owns a Sandy Bridge ultrabook (though currently its got Win7 cuz power management's a mess under Linux) im glad to see Chris continuing to make fast changes and fast updates to fix bugs. Hopefully by the time Linux is on this the driver will be in an even better shape than it already is.

Keep up the good work Chris!