[Openchrome-users] S3 Graphics released a driver for their PCIe chips

[Xavier Bachelot]

Stefan Bassing wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I don't know if you realized, but S3 Graphics recently released a Linux
> driver for their PCI-Express Chips (ChromeS2x and GammaChrome):
> http://www.s3graphics.com/en/resources/drivers/chrome_PCIe/
> 
> I'm not an Linux expert, in fact I'm far away from being that, and I
> don't know if this packages includes anything you could need for
> openchrome, but I thought it couldn't be so bad to let you know about
> this driver.
> 
> greetings
> 
> Stefan Bassing
> webmaster Chrome-Center
> 
At first glance, it looks like a nice NVidia style proprietary 
binary-only crap, with all the possible GPL violations associated. I'm 
even wondering if they've not simply copied the nvidia installer...

This probably only contains source to a wrapper around the binary, so 
it's mostly useless. Reverse engineering is prohibited by the license, 
so it can only be used with the same methods used by avivo/nouveau driver.

Thanks for the info anyway :-)

Regards,
Xavier