[Intel-gfx] GMA3150
Adam Jackson
ajax at redhat.com
Wed Sep 5 15:28:58 CEST 2012
On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 08:43 +0200, Luca Ellero wrote:
> Hi Adam,
> thank you for your quick reply.
> Anyway, if you don't mind I would like to ask you two more questions then:
>
> 1) does this mean that I can't use Open Source Graphics Drivers for GMA3150?
Incorrect. The GMA3150 is supported by open drivers.
> 2) if this is not true and Intel has not publicly released any
> programming documentation for GMA3150, who and how are this drivers
> written? By reading source code can we understand how GMA3150 works?
The gen3 support was originally written by Tungsten Graphics under
contract with Intel (with NDA documentation), and is currently
maintained by Intel directly. It's quite readable, as drivers go. In
many cases reading the code is more enlightening than reading
documentation anyway.
- ajax
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