[dundee] VIA Releases 16K-Line FOSS Framebuffer Driver from Slashdot

[azmodie]

billybob2 writes "VIA has released 16,434 Lines Of Free & Open Source code
that enables Linux natively to use the framebuffer on VIA's graphics
chipsets. This comes a month after VIA announced that it will provide
Open-Source drivers and documentation on its Web site so that its hardware
will work out of the box with Linux distributions. This gives VIA-powered
systems that come pre-installed with Linux — such as the gPC, 15.4" gBook,
CloudBook, and Zonbu — the ability to output graphics through digital
connections such as HDMI, and probably makes them the best-supported
framebuffers Linux has ever had. Look forward to documentation and X.org
drivers from VIA as well in the near future."

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/11/1736250&from=rss

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