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Keith Packard at Intel?Keith Packard at Intel?Posted Aug 10, 2006 2:50 UTC (Thu) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846)In reply to: Keith Packard at Intel? by vblum Parent article: Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released
No, this is a result of Intel's long-standing partnership with Tungsten Graphics (i.e. Alan Hourihane). Intel has been paying Tungsten to write open-source drivers for their 3D hardware for many, many years. Frankly, I don't understand why there is such a big press buzz about this. Intel *always* makes sure their integrated graphics have an open-source driver available. I didn't remember any press coverage when they released i915 or i945 drivers. Why is i965 so special?
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Keith Packard at Intel? Posted Aug 10, 2006 8:51 UTC (Thu) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link] I think the differentiating part is this: "65 Express Chipset representsthe first product family that implements fourth generation Intel graphics architecture [...] this chipset family includes support for programmable vertex, geometry, and fragment shaders.". I guess there weren't earlier any Open Source gfx card driver containing all of this potentially badly patent-encumbered stuff. MicroSoft might have a few patents on this area (now that they own SGI's patents etc)... Anyway, after this news the new computer I'm going to buy next winter is most likely going to be some Intel-combo that doesn't warm up the house as much and noisily as my current setup (Athlon-XP + large CRT monitor; my Matrox G550 doesn't warm much, but it doesn't perform that well either).
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