From: Keith Packard <keithp-AT-keithp.com> To: lwn-AT-lwn.net Subject: Announcing free software graphics drivers for Intel i965 chipset Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:50:43 -0700 Cc: keithp-AT-keithp.com

The Intel Open Source Technology Center graphics team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of free software drivers for the Intel 965 Express Chipset family graphics controller. These drivers include support for 2D and 3D graphics features for the newest generation Intel graphics architecture. The project Web site is http://IntelLinuxGraphics.org. This release represents the start of a long term effort by Intel to work with the X.org and Mesa communities to continuously improve and enhance the drivers. While these drivers represent significant work at both Tungsten Graphics and Intel, as our first release of this code, they're still in need of significant testing, tuning and bug fixing before they'll be ready for production use. We're releasing them now to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to providing free software drivers for Intel hardware. The Intel 965 Express Chipset represents the first product family that implements fourth generation Intel graphics architecture. Designed to support advanced rendering features in modern graphics APIs, this chipset family includes support for programmable vertex, geometry, and fragment shaders. By open sourcing the drivers for this new technology, Intel enables the open source community to experiment, develop, and contribute to the continuing advancement of open source 3D graphics. We would like to especially thank our partners at Tungsten Graphics - Alan Hourihane and Keith Whitwell - for developing the new 3D driver and enhancing the 2D driver to support the new hardware. Intel has assembled a team within the Open Source Technology Center to manage Intel graphics driver development going forward: Development Eric Anholt <eric.anholt@intel.com> Guangdeng Liao <guangdeng.laio@intel.com> Keith Packard <keith.packard@intel.com> Zhenyu Wang <zhenyu.z.wang@intel.com> Testing Gordon Jin <gordon.jin@intel.com> Shuang He <shuang.he@intel.com> Wang Wei <wei.z.wang@intel.com> Weiliang Chong <weiliang.chong@intel.com> Wu Nian <nian.wu@intel.com> Following the release of this driver, future work will continue in the public X.org and Mesa project source code repositories. The project Web site, http://IntelLinuxGraphics.org, will serve as the central site for users of Intel graphics hardware in open source operating systems. -- keith.packard@intel.com