Intel releases public video driver under OS license

[Candy]

As title claims:

http://intellinuxgraphics.org/

Now you can even cheat for the 3D code in there, which I for certain am going to do. Enjoy!

PS: Looking for cheap 965 mainboard that supports Pentium D-805...

[Candy]

They're released under the MIT license, the DRI/AGP code is under the GPLv2 license (since it should go into the linux kernel).

That's a yes.

[ineo]

That's a big step I've been waiting that for years.

However Intel is not in the high end 3D card market, and I doubt any of ATI and/or Nvidia will do the same since it's their core market.

I will have a look at those drivers too since I am very curious at the way it works.

;D

[bluecode]

...and I doubt any of ATI and/or Nvidia will do the same since it's their core market.

Perhaps that changes now that ATI becomes a part of AMD.

[hendric.lee]

Sounds cool! I've been looking forward for very long time!

[Mark]

This is great news for OS dev's as we can now do modern graphics drivers and not have to rely on reversed engineered code or legacy stuff. Of course we'll have to wait to get our hands on the PC's

Any ideas if Bochs etc will be emulating these chips?

Cheers

[Candy]

...and I doubt any of ATI and/or Nvidia will do the same since it's their core market.

Perhaps that changes now that ATI becomes a part of AMD.

I'm so keeping my fingers crossed. I either need that or a new mainboard which fits my exact system (well... except for the pci-express slot perhaps), where the first would even be free.

[Candy]

You can make a BOCHS VBE driver pretty simple, without using the BIOS. Since the BIOS is open source, you can look at it for how it's used. From that, there are a bunch of commands, that are all pretty darn simple, that control it all. Most is hardcoded anyway, but there are functions for retrieving them, so you can make it "portable" to new BOCHS releases too.

Best of all, it'll take you about 10 minutes to understand and 30 to write a driver for mode switching. If you'd like it, I'll dig up my code, tried that once and it worked the first try.

[Mark]

Yes, it would be good to see the code