VIA Releases New Documentation, But It's Old

[bulletxt]

I think nvidia should release all specs from Geforce2 to Geforce 6 series. There are 0 reasons to not do this.

About VIA, good job but continue to release new specs.

[thefirstm]

Except Nvidia's chips actually do something useful....

[Veerappan]

Still, at least they're trying. Unlike other we're-too-good-for-OSS companies.

Agreed. At least they're releasing documentation for something that's still on the market.

Given that their current products are based on the VX800, it's somewhat possible the next generation will also be a similar derivative. If so, any documentation we get now might help us prepare proper drivers for the future as well. If we can get the current hardware to be well supported, it might be less work to get the next-gen stuff working.

And really, better late (VIA) than never (NVidia) I guess...

[Ant P.]

Still, at least they're trying. Unlike other we're-too-good-for-OSS companies.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: VIA Releases New Documentation, But It's Old

A few weeks back we shared VIA's Linux TODO list, which was very disappointing to say the least. VIA Technologies has gone through several phases of trying to be "open-source friendly" and they certainly try to brand themselves as such, but it's still going to be a year (or longer) before they have a viable open-source driver stack and by that time the VIA hardware that's supported will be dated...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=Nzg3NA