XO Gen 1.5

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

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John Watlington wrote:
> The enabling chipset is hot off the fab line, the VX855 [2].  This
> single chip provides ... a 3D graphics engine, an HD
> video decoder

It's worth remembering that the only existing driver that supports either
of these features is a pure binary blob.  The Openchrome drivers have no
3D support, never mind video decode support.  Even their Xv support is
glitchy.

In other words, this GPU represents a regression, compared to the Geode
LX, unless you're willing to run with (famously unreliable, unsupported)
binary-only drivers.

So don't get too excited.

- --Ben
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