Intel releases Programmers Reference Manual

[Keith Packard]

The Intel Graphics Development Group and Intel Open Source Technology
Center are pleased to announce the release of the Intel® 965 Express
Chipset Family and Intel® G35 Express Chipset Graphics Controller
Programmers Reference Manual under the Creative Commons Attribution-No
Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. This four volume set of
manuals documents all portions of the hardware necessary to produce and
maintain a complete driver, including accelerated media encoding and
decoding, 2D and 3D graphics. 

Containing over 1600 pages of text and figures, the Programmers
Reference Manual includes everything from low level register definitions
and discussions on how each functional hardware block works through
descriptions about the hardware architecture. Each documented feature
includes a discussion on how the hardware works and how the hardware
designers expected the software to operate.

The manual was written to support external software developers, allowing
them to work independently of Intel support resources. The availability
of this manual enables the free software community to develop and
maintain software related to Intel graphics hardware for many
applications and operating systems. This release demonstrates Intel's
continued commitment to supporting the free software community using the
best practices of open source software development.

        "Congratulations to Intel for releasing a set of comprehensive
        documents that ensures that Linux will work wonderfully on their
        hardware with open and supportable drivers."
        
        Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Driver Project

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keith.packard at intel.com
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