What makes a production kernel?

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 01:04:55PM -0700, alan wrote:
> video chipset that is not nVIDIA or ATI.  (Trident is not acceptable, not 
> even to dentists who chew gum.)  I wish Matrox had a chipset for laptops, 
> but I have yet to see it.  (And probably never will...)

Trident is now along with SiS and some other stuff part of a new
graphis company.

> Is there a reasonably fast chipset that will give an acceptable framerate 
> for OpenGL and has open source drivers?  Other than Matrox (and some will 
> argue on the OpenGL part) i don't know of any.

Matrox Gxx 3D is quite slow, it underperforms my old Voodoo for example. 
The mid range part seems to be S3 which is found on some motherboards
with VIA chipsets