It's also exciting to see kernel mode-setting support being worked on for more hardware, but the Permedia 3/4 hardware comes as a bit surprising, if you even recognize the name. The Permedia 3 and Permedia 4 are products of 3Dlabs. These were low-end OpenGL-capable graphics cards that were offered by 3Dlabs prior to their acquisition by ATI. The 3Dlabs Permedia graphics cards that have been around for more than a decade are rightfully rare these days, but it's picking up kernel mode-setting support. The purpose of this GSoC project though is to document the KMS driver writing process rather than expecting this driver to have a useful life. Going with an older, simpler graphics processor should make it easier to implement a KMS driver over the course of a summer than a modern GPU that is much more advanced.
Part of the project is for me to learn the internals of writing graphics drivers, this is the part I think we're missing.
And I'd like to see the driver have a useful life as well.
Originally posted by Alejandro Nova
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I don't know. The 3DLabs cards seem more interesting to me than Voodoos. Don't they only support up to 1024x768 at a decent color depth?
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