[Intel-gfx] GMA3150

[Luca Ellero]

On 05/09/2012 15.28, Adam Jackson wrote:
> 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

Thank you, now it's a lot more clear.
regards
Luke