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VIA Publishes Three Programming Guides
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| Earlier this week we shared that VIA had appointed an open-source liaison to
| work on providing the community with documentation and source-code for their
| products and work to improve VIA's image within the Linux and open-source
| communities. Since VIA announced their open-source strategy earlier this
| year, all they had provided was a simple kernel frame-buffer driver. However,
| VIA has now made available three programming guides that cover their PadLock,
| CX700, and VX800/820 products. In total these three documents amount to about
| 800 (PDF) pages.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjYyMg
Recent:
VIA getting serious about open source?
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| VIA just announced they they will be contracting Harald Welte to be their
| open source liaison. Welte will be tasked with “helping refine VIA’s Open
| Source strategy to optimize its support for Linux across all the components
| of its x86 processor platforms”. He will also, more importantly, help develop
| drivers for VIA hardware and improve documentation. Welte is the founder of
| gpl-violations.org and has worked on the OpenMoko project.
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http://www.geek.com/via-getting-serious-about-open-source-20080724/
VIA's Linux portal.
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| In summary, signs you may be 'doing it wrong':
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| * Your open source portal doesn't have any source code or documentation.
| * Upstream developers have to resort to using disassemblers and similar
| tools to find out what changes you made.
| * You release binary blobs for 'the latest distros'.
| * You aspire to be 'more like moblin.
| * An absence of participation in existing driver efforts. How many
| drivers for unichrome do we need anyway?
| * You distribute .ko files clearly marked with MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")
| without corresponding source. Normally, this sort of thing isn't taken
| lightly. Why is this any different?
|
| I'm beginning to think the only way VIA will ever really 'get it together' is
| if they employed someone from the Linux community who actually understands
| how all this works, because it seems someone in Taiwan isn't getting the
| memos.
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http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/124084.html
Via laptop goes Open Source
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| The design drawings are offered for download under a Creative Common
| Attribution Share Alike 3.0 license, but you'll probably need to hire a few
| engineering Phds and come up with a couple of million quid in development
| capital to make it all work out.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/27/via-laptop-goes-open-source
VIA Gives 16,434 Lines Of OSS Code
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| VIA has released over 16,000 lines of code that provides a frame-buffer
| driver in the Linux kernel. This code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and
| appears to be crafted by VIA's Joseph Chan. Supported by this driver is VIA's
| Unichrome CLE266, K400, K800, PM800, CN700, CX700, K8M890, P4M890, P4M900,
| and VX800 IGPs.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjQ2Nw
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