XGI’s Linux driver was written off as dead back in the summer of 2008 when Ian Romanick who had been working on the open-source XGI Linux driver through his work at IBM had left the company to go join Intel where he now works on Mesa and Intel’s open-source 3D stack. XGI Technology really hasn’t put out new hardware lately and has been flying under the radar, but this past January a long-time XGI employee began working on this code. Jong Lin is the XGI engineer who has been working for the company for sometime and is someone that we communicated with years ago when XGI was in its prime…
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