VIA OpenChrome Driver Has A Roadmap, But Only One Developer

[phoronix]

Phoronix: VIA OpenChrome Driver Has A Roadmap, But Only One Developer

The OpenChrome project has long aspired to having a mainline DRM/KMS driver but that original developer since left. These days OpenChrome is down to basically one developer left working on this open-source driver for VIA x86 graphics hardware...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenChrome-One-Dev-Roadmap

[uid313]

Isn't it better to just use xf86-video-modesetting instead?

Maybe they could make use of Glamor too?

[Michael]

Isn't it better to just use xf86-video-modesetting instead?

Maybe they could make use of Glamor too?

First they would need a working KMS/DRM driver to use xf86-video-modesetting.

They also can't use GLAMOR until having a working 3D driver.

[andrei_me]

Isn't it better to just use xf86-video-modesetting instead?

Maybe they could make use of Glamor too?

As we say in Brazil "o buraco é mais embaixo", literally translated as "the hole is deeper", meaning that a problem is more complex as it seems

[starshipeleven]

Kill it with fire.

[marty1885]

VIA, please stop being an idiot on you CPU and GPUs (and your embedded systems)...
You are just killing yourself...

[libv]

VIA, please stop being an idiot on you CPU and GPUs (and your embedded systems)...
You are just killing yourself...

That's a rather weird statement as it assumes that VIA is still alive. Even AMD is a zombie today, VIA is long dead.

[pq1930562]

Isn't it better to just use xf86-video-modesetting instead?

Maybe they could make use of Glamor too?

See:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95524