Submitted by LWN announces that Intel is releasing drivers for the Intel 965 Express Chipset family graphics controller, including full support for 2D/3D features. This is not good news just for Linux/X.org, but also for every open-source OS out there. Intel even set up a dedicated site.
Open your e-mail client and write a letter of thanks.
Now.
Don’t be a zealot. Companies do not have to put everything in front of you on a silver plate, and I’m sure real people get their feelings hurt when some company makes a small move to embrace open source, and they get burnt by zealots saying enough isn’t enough; my way or the highway.
Development Team
The following people have made this driver release possible:
Intel Development Team
Eric Anholt <[email protected]>
Guangdeng Liao <[email protected]>
Keith Packard <[email protected]>
Zhenyu Wang <[email protected]>
Intel Testing Team
Gordon Jin <[email protected]>
Shuang He <[email protected]>
Wang Wei <[email protected]>
Weiliang Chong <[email protected]>
Wu Nian <[email protected]>
Tungsten Graphics
Alan Hourihane <[email protected]>
Keith Whitwell <[email protected]>
I see Keith moved from HP to Intel. I imagine he’s a big influence in getting this opened up.
Actually can’t thank them “Now” because Gmail is down. Although I plan to.
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This is a good first step, more and more will open up sooner or later, better than nothing, and better than never.
I want to remember that XGL works well with intel graphic cards and the open driver.
o/ Intel, this time…
It does. Atleast with my i915.
Hopefully this will give the Intel_Extreme driver in Haiku a boost!
Maybe I can use it to hack in support for my i915
I wonder if this is something of a reply to AMD’s apparent willingness to open source at least some of their newly acquired ATi driver source.
There is no relation, as Intel already released drivers for their graphics chips before. This is “just another” release.
Hasn’t intel always released their drivers? Of course, I don’t think the performance of the older chipsets were anything to be impressed with but hopefully with the newer versions we will see some performance.
This is not only good for open source operating systems but just as well for many closed source systems as well. This will also enable better graphics drivers for Zeta, Syllable or AROS.
This is not only good for open source operating systems but just as well for many closed source systems as well. This will also enable better graphics drivers for Zeta, Syllable or AROS.
Although your first sentence doesn’t necessarily imply the OSes in your second sentence are meant to be example of closed source, you probably meant SkyOS (closed source) instead of Syllable (GPL). Aros is open source as well.
Yes, you’re right. My bad.
All Intel need to do is release this as a seperate card with dedicated memory (rather than shared) and it would be a great alternative to Nvidia.
Nothing would please me more than seeing the likes of Nvidia going bankrupt and Ati forced into opensourcing their drivers.
Lets stop the crap and the lies, and start opensourcing the damn things!
“All Intel need to do is release this as a seperate card with dedicated memory (rather than shared) and it would be a great alternative to Nvidia. ”
I have wondered about why they do not do this. Unless it is just the cost factor along with competition in the field. I truly wish they would try it.
Via unichrome as well.
Come on – somebody step up to bat. It doesn;t need to be a nvidia killer just a good 3d card that works out of the box with most linux(s).
While interesting, it’s just too bad that they didn’t put all of it under MIT license.
I think some of it is from linux – so it was GPL already… I wouldn’t be surprised if all the intel-specific code WAS MIT-licensed, and only the linux-specific code was GPL.
2D support -> X.org project -> MIT License
3D GL support -> Mesa project -> MIT License
AGP/Direct rendering support -> Linux Kernel project -> GPL version 2