[ANNOUNCE] Intel Releases IGD OpRegion Specification

[Jesse Barnes]

On Friday, October 3, 2008 1:52 am Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > The Intel Open Source Technology Center is pleased to announce the
> > immediate availability of the ACPI Integrated Graphics Device OpRegion
> > Specification[1] under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative
> > Works 3.0 United States License. This document is intended for use by
> > graphics drivers developers and users to enable features such as ambient
> > light sensor support and hotkey-driven display output switching.
> >
> > The IGD OpRegion interface is supported by video BIOS for all Intel® 965
> > Express Chipset family and newer chipsets. Initial support code is
> > already available for the Linux kernel. The spec includes detailed
> > descriptions of IGD OpRegion functions, APIs, and other interfaces to
> > provide full software support.
> >
> > This release demonstrates Intel's continued commitment to supporting the
> > free software community using the best practices of open source software
> > development.
> >
> > [1] http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html
>
> Small question, intel recently released G45/G43 chipsets.
>
> The programming manual was released for G965/G35.
> Will there be updated manual for G45?

I think Keith has been working on that; I'll let him provide an update.

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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center