[Openchrome-users] Discussion on VIA support

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 06:39:26AM +0000, Hans-Ulrich Beling wrote:
> 
> Hello gentlemen,
> thanks for your good work of the openchrome driver.
> Even it is not perfect.
> I wonder why a company like VIA does not put more ressources
> into the linux drivers.
> The two patches seem to me a poor performance.
> They are far behind ATI and NVIDIA.
> If they see linux users as a minority we have to accept that.
> Having bought?a Samsung NC20 with VX800 chipset, which is now nearly a year
> known,?our decision is not to buy any VIA product because of the poor driver support.
> Hope someone in VIA is understanding a decisionmakers point of view.

VIA always has had a terrible showing, ever since the code initially was 
made public with the involvement of Alan Cox 6 years ago.

If AMD hadn't believed some weirdo's at SUSE 2 years ago, then VIA still 
would not have docs out like this today. As predicted, VIAs new lease of 
open source life would not match the big promises made in marketing.

Pointing this out consistenly in the past is one of the things that made 
me quite impopular, but not less correct. And the story is old, but 
still unchanged.

You will not hear such critical voices from some people here at 
openchrome, especially since they do not have the credibility or ability 
to be critical as code just isn't being done by them, and some (somewhat 
misplaced) dependence on VIA exists there.

Luc Verhaegen.
http://unichrome.sf.net/