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965GM support pushed
keithp and I have just pushed the support code for the 965GM (laptop graphics chipset that will be available soon) to mesa, drm, and xf86-video-intel. The remaining piece is agpgart, which we just haven't done the lkml submission for yet, but if you check the patches for those 3 projects, you can probably guess what the agpgart diff looks like. It wouldn't seem like a very big addition, since it was something like 100 lines total, but there's something cool and new here: We've managed to get the ability to push the code before the chipset launch. Previously, chipset support like this has been released early only to distributions, who then try to have packages ready to go for that day (often with bugs or integration issues due to only having received old snapshots), but this still meant that you couldn't just grab a released distro CD and pop it in your machine and go. Now, there's a much better chance of this happening, depending on how your distro's release cycle aligns with ours.

Getting even little policy changes like this really gives me hope that we can fix hardware vendors to do the right thing with open source software. Ultimately, it's in their interests.

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