He seems to have more (recent) detail in later posts.
The Linux Graphics Stack gets way more shit than it deserves.
Most of the shit should stick firmly to the graphics hardware manufacturers undermining the efforts of the open source devs.
No, I’m OK with the manufacturers not writing drivers for open source.
But I hate the NDA’s and crap (or non-existent) documentation and just plain crappy hardware design smoothed over by layers and layers of closed source windows drivers.
I’m firmly with Torvalds in raising the middle finger of appreciation to the manufacturers who took my hard earned money and delivered shit and pain.
It really is both amazing and great how far the Intel display hardware has come, given how well they document everything. It’s not gonna help you crush Battlefield on 3 displays, but if you just want to do work, it’ll get you a long way.
This was in 2012, I wonder how it looks now :)
He seems to have more (recent) detail in later posts.
The Linux Graphics Stack gets way more shit than it deserves.
Most of the shit should stick firmly to the graphics hardware manufacturers undermining the efforts of the open source devs.
No, I’m OK with the manufacturers not writing drivers for open source.
But I hate the NDA’s and crap (or non-existent) documentation and just plain crappy hardware design smoothed over by layers and layers of closed source windows drivers.
I’m firmly with Torvalds in raising the middle finger of appreciation to the manufacturers who took my hard earned money and delivered shit and pain.
It really is both amazing and great how far the Intel display hardware has come, given how well they document everything. It’s not gonna help you crush Battlefield on 3 displays, but if you just want to do work, it’ll get you a long way.