So... are these docs actually complete? Or are there major pieces
missing like with ATI and the still-undocumented-after-all-these-years
UVD?
Can we expect FLOSS video decode with these things?
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They don't sell discrete cards, but integrated chipsets, and people who end up with such a chipset (e.g. on a laptop) are quite screwed without drivers.
Also, there is already a more-or-less working Chrome driver, and it's been recently ported over to KMS+TTM. Of course it would be great if VIA funded developers (and it sucks that they don't), but the community devs do not have to start from zero. With this documentation, it should be far easier to fix the existing drivers and add missing functionality.
Much easier than with, say, nouveau.
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It's nice to release doc, however :- it's a little late, as Chrome is out for years now
- Where can you buy Chrome gpu ? Here in France, no where. Perhaps elsewhere?
- Who will code that stuff, knowing that for AMD, there is major difficulties to get something completed for 2D, 3D and video (and AMD is far more present than VIA) ?
VIA is just giving away stuff that can't be sold (who got a VIA graphic card here?) and for which they don't want to invest anything.
Their Chrome9 is also so outdated that it's no secret fabrication process to be protected anymore, as Nvidia, AMD or Intel are far beyond them.
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Originally posted by oliw View PostI don't see why so many people are praising VIA.
If Nvidia released docs, they would be praised too.
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I don't see why so many people are praising VIA.
They've done essentially zero work and they've now committed to doing absolutely zero work in the future. All they've done is punt out some documentation into the open for hardware that isn't much better than awful (running under their own drivers).
What is this actually going to mean for real people? It's going to be somewhere between months and years before this is turned into something useful, by which point the older C9 devices will have already started dying off (they already have here).
VIA should have done this two years ago. That would have deserved some praise. But the most this gets from me is a promise that I'll stop spitting when I hear their name.
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Since the VX900 was released March 2010, it's not as long a wait as implied in the article (compared to AMD's docs).
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Originally posted by V!NCENT View PostWhat AMD already did with Fusion?
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Originally posted by Adarion View PostThat would be... optimal.
Originally posted by Adarion View PostGPUs seem to be slower cause a lot is done in software and there is more secrecy
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