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Actually the early Intel GPU efforts were hillariously bad partly because they licensed someone else's GPU... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Controller_H
by mjevans 8y ago
Actually the early Intel GPU efforts were hillariously bad partly because they licensed someone else's GPU...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Controller_Hub#Poulsbo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Controller_Hub#Poulsbo
There /still/ isn't support for this closed platform on Linux/etc based systems due to a combination of (now) outdated hardware, very few systems in developer hands (even lower interest), and the lack of performance even with proper drivers* (I don't have a good citation for that).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnell_(microarchitecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnell_(microarchitecture)
It didn't help that the power requirements fell very solidly in to the uncanny valley between 'crappy, but very low power so we can forgive it' and 'good, but uses lots of power'.