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#18
Originally Posted by MartinK View Post
Don't count on open GPU drivers on this new Intel architecture.

As its predecessors it uses a third party GPU provided by Imagination technologies (the same company responsible for the GPUs in N900,N950,N9 and many other devices). Concerning how open-source unfriendly Imagination is and what mess was the driver situation with Paulsbo (a prior Intel netbook/mobile architecture), it really doesn't look good - basically the same sitatation as with ARM - no problem using the CPU but no open GPU drivers.
You can find more info to this issue in this slightly chaotic Phoronix article.
amen to that.

The most interesting hope has been that by having linux
on x86 we would have open source drivers for bits
from desktop hardware,
but your point is well taken.
Furthermore, there will probably be lockdown codes built
into more than just the bootloader in the future.
(Thinking communication lockdowns, gps firmware disables etc)
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