OpenChrome DRM Driver For Open-Source VIA Continues To See Some Activity In 2022

[sinepgib]

I remember having a VIA GPU and interacting with James Simmons via (no pun intended) the mailing list in his efforts to implement KMS. Despite being few, they were a very active and friendly community. I no longer own that computer, but I wish them luck in their efforts. It may not be apt for modern uses but it's still useful for other tasks and I'd rather not see it turn into e-waste.

[Mike Frett]

All I remember about VIA is all the complaints about its crappy motherboard drivers. Remember how flaky those boards were?

[Quackdoc]

I think I still have a via board kicking around somewherem it was slow, even for when it was new.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenChrome DRM Driver For Open-Source VIA Continues To See Some Activity In 2022

If you are still using a motherboard with a VIA x86 chipset, it's really long past due to consider upgrading to a newer platform, but if that is not feasible the UniChrome IGP graphics support continues to still be worked on occasionally for Linux in 2022. The OpenChrome driver project remains in a sad state and out-of-tree, but is continuing to see fixes and re-based against newer versions of the Linux kernel...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenChrome-Alive-In-2022