VIA fulfills its commitment to officially launch the Linux support website

& Nbsp; I believe that in the 1990s S, apart from INTEL, AMD, and TI, the DIY geeks and overclock enthusiasts certainly remember a familiar name-VIA Weisheng technology, which was the CPU he produced at that time, it's really slow, but it's really power-saving. Today, VIA fulfills his commitment to low-power x86 compatibility  

I believe that in the 1990s S, apart from INTEL, AMD, and TI, we certainly remember a familiar name-VIA Weisheng technology, the CPU he produced at that time, it's really slow, but it's really power-saving.

Today, VIA fulfills his commitment to the VIA (Weisheng technology) study on low-power x86 compatibility processing, and today announced the release of the beta version of VIA Linux website, this is one of the many initiatives VIA has expanded cooperation with open-source communities.

The VIA Linux website will begin to provide the Linux graphics driver for VIA CN896 digital media IGP chipset (digital media IGP chipset). through the combination of the CN896 chipset and VIA vt9133 and VT8237S South Bridge chipset, provides cost-effective embedded systems and desktops. The relevant documentation and source code for the Linux driver will be available for download on the VIA Linux support website in the next few weeks. VIA will continue to launch the BUG tracking system and support forum this year, and will be followed up with the upgrade of the Linux kernel and the updates of major releases.

A spokesman for Ubuntu's commercial support company Canonical expressed appreciation for VIA's actions as an improvement in VIA's support for open-source communities. Ubuntu will strive to include the VIA hardware driver by default in the release version. I believe that the VIA hardware platform will bring excellent user experience. Linuxeden believes that VIA's move will trigger a Linux development application climax in the low-end desktop market and embedded market, catching up with the open source trend for VIA companies, at the same time, the hardware platform is better integrated into the Linux desktop to enhance its brand image, so as to avoid "suffering from death" without knowing what to do ". VIA believes that the company is very excited and happy to be able to join the "open source club". opening a Linux support website is an important step in its long-term open source strategy.

The VIA Linux support website is still a beta version. However, VIACN896 has provided drivers for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 Service Pack 1. More hardware drivers and technical documents will be added. As a Chinese integrated circuit chip developer.

VIA CN896 chipset with built-in VIA Chrome9 HC integrated graphics processor, with high-performance 3D acceleration and 2D acceleration for Office Applications, its built-in Chromotion video display engine supports adaptive anti-crossover technology, video mosaic technology, can achieve advanced hardware video processing and rendering, such as MPEG-2 decoding acceleration and image enhancement functions.

The VIA CN896 chipset can be used with VT8237S or vt8w.nanqiao chip. both products support four groups of Parallel ATA devices. The difference is that VT8237S supports two sets of SATA2 devices, vt88.0 supports four groups of SATA2 devices.

The CN896 chipset supports a full range of VIA processors, including the VIA C7 series processor, which is named Eden in the VIA company.

VIA Linux support website

VIA temporary Linux Support Forum (official support forum will be officially opened on the Linux support website in the future)