From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Ellero Subject: Re: GMA3150 Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:38:49 +0200 Message-ID: <504763F9.1040202@gmail.com> References: <504604ED.4070605@gmail.com> <50460898.1070409@redhat.com> <5046F48E.5040602@gmail.com> <1346851738.3912.4.camel@atropine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-bk0-f49.google.com (mail-bk0-f49.google.com [209.85.214.49]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 461309E764 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 07:41:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by bkcji2 with SMTP id ji2so301905bkc.36 for ; Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:41:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1346851738.3912.4.camel@atropine> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: Adam Jackson Cc: Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org 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