Intel's commitment to open source driver support
Update: It turns out that the original PSB code is still on the moblin site - I just failed to notice that there's two pages of git repositories. I fail. Last update is from March 2008, though.

Edited again: An up-to-date version of the drm code is available as part of the Moblin kernel SRPM - repo.moblin.com isn't obviously linked off the Moblin website, but I should have thought to find and check their source repository.

By and large, working with Intel is a pleasure. In fact, a while ago I said so in a fairly obvious way. So it's a shame that the support for Poulsbo is still an absolute fucking mess with absolutely no obvious end in sight. Intel's Moblin group (the people who seem to be closest to having responsibility for providing any public Linux support for that hardware, though it's really not clear if they've got any more say in this than I do) have a kernel team that don't want or need a git tree despite having someone who's working on forward porting the driver to modern kernels - probably a job that requires more than one person given what a godawful fucking mess the last public release was, but it'd at least be nice to see what the current state is. Especially since you don't even seem to be able to get the last public release - moblin's git repositories have been rearranged and I can't find the psb-kmod one on their gitweb any more.

The most terribly depressing thing about this is that development is clearly still happening internally. Ubuntu is still being sent tarball releases by Intel, not that the code's getting any better judging by the type of diff involved. This is made even more entertaining by the bug in question being private, leaving no indication whatsoever about what bugs this code is meant to fix or why.

Closed development, random private tarball drops to partners without any public releases or changelogs, no indication of any upstream release, kernel developers entirely unrelated to the development of the driver trying to get code merged so people can actually use the hardware they bought? I'd expect this of some random far-east vendor with no experience in working with Linux, but not a company that's consistently one of the top ten contributors to the kernel and has frequently touted their level of support. There's no meaningful support for Poulsbo. There's just a thin cardboard cutout that's been carefully placed in front of a hole filled with users' hopes and money.

Seriously Intel. Sort it the fuck out.