Yesterday we reported on VIA’s Linux dreams not materializing with their GEM/TTM memory management support still missing even though we are half-way into 2010 — more than two years after VIA announced its most recent open-source initiative. It turns out, however, for what VIA views as its memory management work is actually done. VIA has inconspicuously handed over some of its code to the OpenChrome developers in order to create a new driver that has been dubbed the “openvia” driver. VIA has supposedly provided the source-code to an X driver plus TTM/GEM DRM, but this new project largely remains a hidden mystery.
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