Tungsten Creates New VIA 3D Stack

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Jan 9, 2009 12:22 AM EDT
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Thomas Hellström of Tungsten Graphics is preparing to release a new DRM module and Mesa 3D driver that supports some of VIA's older hardware -- and eventually their newest graphics processors. This work done by Thomas includes a memory manager similar to the Graphics Execution Manager and a stable AGP command submission mechanism. This new code will also allow for kernel mode-setting on VIA hardware in the future. The hardware supported by this new VIA 3D code is the CX700 and older Unichrome IGPs...

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