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VIA Is Still At It: They Launched A $49 ARM PC

phoronix.com: While fading away to irrelevancy, VIA is still around and actually releasing new hardware. Though this isn't some new VIA x86 quad-core CPU but rather VIA Technologies is now entering the ARM and Android space. The product they announced on Tuesday is a $49 Android PC...

How-To Bang On VIA Hardware With Linux KMS

phoronix.com: Here's a video by James Simmons, the community developer that's near single-handedly been working on providing VIA kernel mode-setting (KMS) support and in-kernel memory management (via a GEM-ified TTM implementation), talking about the Linux KMS and GEM/TTM infrastructures for those wishing to learn more about Linux graphics driver programming...

OpenChrome VIA KMS Has A Goal For This Summer

phoronix.com: Last week a status update was issued concerning the plans for OpenChrome kernel mode-setting (KMS) support for VIA hardware under Linux. There's finally a goal set for a release this summer...

OpenChrome Picks Up New VIA Support, But Still Lags

phoronix.com: The xf86-video-openchrome driver has seen its first proper release in quite a while. The xf86-video-openchrome 0.2.905 release has support for new hardware and features...

VIA Shows Us Next-Gen Hardware Results, Info

phoronix.com: The S3 Chrome 600 series / VIA VT3456 (VX11) still hasn't been officially announced, but here are some benchmarks of the forthcoming chipset from a VIA Nano quad-core system...

Radeon HD 7000 Support, VIA KMS Still Missing

phoronix.com: When talking yesterday about the likely DRM pull for the Linux 3.3 kernel there were a few graphics driver related items not on the list...

Santa Raids VIA Tech For Open-Source Presents

phoronix.com: Here's a very unexpected but welcoming surprise for the holidays: there's some source code that's about to be released by VIA Technologies...

An OpenChrome VIA Driver Status Update

phoronix.com: For any unfortunate Linux souls still stuck with VIA hardware, here's a status update about the OpenChrome driver project for providing an open-source graphics driver for VIA integrated graphics processors...

Is VIA Back To Playing With Linux, Gallium3D?

phoronix.com: Back in January I heard from VIA that their open-source Linux strategy / support was basically dead. They don't have the resources or justification to do the work any longer, and their Linux TODO list was basically shot. In the years since they announced they were trying to become open-source friendly (and follow the steps of ATI/AMD), they only managed to push out some partially open-source code and some chipset documentation.

OpenCL Is Coming To The GIMP Via GEGL

phoronix.com: Outside of the direct X.Org / Mesa / Linux work being done this year as part of Google's Summer of Code, one of the more interesting projects is work by a student developer with GIMP who is bringing OpenCL support to the graphics program's GEGL image library...

VIA Kernel Mode-Setting Almost Handles LVDS

phoronix.com: While the Intel, Radeon, and Nouveau DRM drivers are now mature with kernel mode-setting -- and the Intel Poulsbo KMS driver is even getting ready to leave the staging area -- there's still one fairly common name missing from the desktop Linux KMS scene: VIA Technologies.

VIA OpenChrome KMS Support Is Nearly Done

phoronix.com: James Simmons has written a status update to the OpenChrome development list concerning his ongoing work towards enabling kernel mode-setting (KMS) support for VIA hardware with this community-maintained VIA Linux project...