Community Matters

Open source is all about many people being able to work together on creating better software. Intel has long been providing open source drivers for all its graphics chips, but today we finally were able to provide the other part of the equation that really enables an active community: Intel released the Programmer’s Reference Manual for the latest 965 series of graphics chipsets.

The documents are on X.org’s server as well; they contain information on all portions of the hardware necessary to produce and maintain a complete driver, including accelerated media encoding and decoding, 2D and 3D graphics.

Initial response by the developers appears to be very positive - tons of “diggs” for the announcement, and very nice feedback on LWN. I expect that many more of them will use this opportunity to create the best open source graphics driver, ever.

Let’s show the companies that are still unwilling to release documentation just how much community matters.

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