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Intel releases public video driver under OS license
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:51 pm
by 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...
Re:Intel releases public video driver under OS license
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:38 pm
by 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.
Re:Intel releases public video driver under OS license
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:56 am
by 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
Re:Intel releases public video driver under OS license
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:13 am
by bluecode
ineo wrote:...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.
Re:Intel releases public video driver under OS license
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:28 am
by hendric.lee
Sounds cool! I've been looking forward for very long time!
Graphics
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:21 pm
by 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
Re:Intel releases public video driver under OS license
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 2:19 am
by Candy
bluecode wrote:
ineo wrote:...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.
Re:Graphics
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 2:24 am
by 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.
Re:Graphics
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:39 am
by Mark
Yes, it would be good to see the code