Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset

Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset

Posted May 13, 2007 4:29 UTC (Sun) by keithp (subscriber, #5140)
In reply to: Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset by drag
Parent article: Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset

> Say if some Linux or X.org hacker wanted to add XVMC support to the Intel drivers...

Of course I'd love for that to happen, our list of things we'd like to see the drivers do is fairly extensive. But, unless we can provide reasonable documentation, it's going to be really hard to break into a big new area of functionality like this. The current header files document what the driver uses, but not a lot beyond that.

What we are doing is trying to get some minimal XvMC support done this year so that the hardware functionality is reasonably well described in both code and comments. At that point, I'm hoping others will be able to help expand support for additional encodings, and other activities.

Any help we can get will be appreciated. Questions about specific chip operations that can be answered by consulting the specs are something I'd like to spend more time answering.

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