Intel's Sandy Bridge Driver Is Nearly Ready

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's Sandy Bridge Driver Is Nearly Ready

Intel began working towards Sandy Bridge support (the Intel HD graphics found on their next-generation CPUs to be launched next month) since this past February and in the months since and it's now their open-source Linux drivers are nearly ready for the first early-adopters of these soon-to-be-released Intel Core i5/i7 processors...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODg5Ng

[Kano]

That's good, informer when i got my Intel G33 board i had to wait over 1 month for initial Linux support. Btw. you could buy the board before official release just like now with some P/H/Q67 boards.

[hobbes]

Is there a word on proper H.264 video acceleration playback?

[karl]

Is there a word on proper H.264 video acceleration playback?

I would also like to know this (SB having a dedicated video accelerator).

[Joker_]

I would also like to know this (SB having a dedicated video accelerator).

I'm not sure whether VA API support for Sandy Bridge is already working but at least Haihao Xiang seems to be working on it.

See libva git commit log for Sandy Bridge and especially H.264 decoding on Sandybridge

[Rabauke]

Is there a word on proper H.264 video acceleration playback?

Obviously, there is. Take a look here.

[karl]

thank you Joker and Rabauke for the info.

[gbeauche]

Is there a word on proper H.264 video acceleration playback?

MPEG-2 VLD and H.264 VLD decoding are both supported now on Sandy Bridge. VC-1 decoding and H.264 encoding will come next.

[Kano]

Did you test it yourself yet?

[crazycheese]

If they finish complete 3D and video-decode support AND the chip+foss code will do more than 100 fps on IDTech3, I will buy intel-only system.