VIA releases chipset documentation

Posted Nov 24, 2008 13:19 UTC (Mon) by honzalinux (guest, #55306)
Parent article: VIA releases chipset documentation

What about the S3 chrome video cards.
http://www.s3graphics.com/en/products/desktop/

VIA releases chipset documentation

Posted Nov 25, 2008 10:44 UTC (Tue) by schlobinux (subscriber, #50808) [Link]

From the organizational pov VIA and S3 are different companies, hence they have different opensource strategies. With the few information I can gather about the S3 GPUs, from the technical pov, the common points between the VIA IGPs and S3 GPUs are not so big anyway.

VIA releases chipset documentation

Posted Nov 25, 2008 16:48 UTC (Tue) by laf0rge (subscriber, #6469) [Link]

S3 graphics is an independent company and not a subsidiary of VIA (like many people tend to think!!!).

What they do with regard to Linux support is their own business.

S3 GPU's are not the same as those that VIA uses in it's IGP products.