Is An Open-Source Poulsbo Driver Coming?
Intel’s Poulsbo Linux driver is a bloody mess. The Poulsbo chipset is known commercially as the GMA 500 that’s found in many netbooks as of late, but it isn’t actually an Intel design but the graphics processor design was licensed from PowerVR. With that, there is no open-source driver but just an ill-maintained binary blob that is notorious among Poulsbo customers. The Poulsbo DRM, which is open-source but without any open-source client (driver), was previously rejected from entering the mainline kernel as well. The situation for Intel’s GMA 500 on Linux is not good, but could this soon be changing? We were tipped off this weekend that on YouTube are two videos (shown below) courtesy of the German NetbookNews.de that shows off Quake III Arena running in full HD on a Poulsbo netbook and a full 1080p HD film running off another Moblin-powered netbook. To sum up the video descriptions for those less experienced in German, Martin Mohring of the Linux Foundation was showing off Quake III A
