From: Luca Ellero <lroluk@gmail.com>
To: Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com>
Cc: Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: GMA3150
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:38:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <504763F9.1040202@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1346851738.3912.4.camel@atropine>
On 05/09/2012 15.28, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 08:43 +0200, Luca Ellero wrote:
>
>> Hi Adam,
>> thank you for your quick reply.
>> Anyway, if you don't mind I would like to ask you two more questions then:
>>
>> 1) does this mean that I can't use Open Source Graphics Drivers for GMA3150?
>
> Incorrect. The GMA3150 is supported by open drivers.
>
>> 2) if this is not true and Intel has not publicly released any
>> programming documentation for GMA3150, who and how are this drivers
>> written? By reading source code can we understand how GMA3150 works?
>
> The gen3 support was originally written by Tungsten Graphics under
> contract with Intel (with NDA documentation), and is currently
> maintained by Intel directly. It's quite readable, as drivers go. In
> many cases reading the code is more enlightening than reading
> documentation anyway.
>
> - ajax
Thank you, now it's a lot more clear.
regards
Luke
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-05 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-04 13:41 GMA3150 Luca Ellero
2012-09-04 13:56 ` GMA3150 Adam Jackson
2012-09-05 6:43 ` GMA3150 Luca Ellero
2012-09-05 13:28 ` GMA3150 Adam Jackson
2012-09-05 14:38 ` Luca Ellero [this message]
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