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"GPUs are notoriously hard to get to work on non-intel" I don't understand this statement... accelerated graphics have no issues working on any x86 system as well as ARM based linux systems (not to mention every cell phone in the past 10 years). Itanium is also Intel so that statement contradicts your previous statement.

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To a limited extent. The accelerated graphics on ARM (and cell phones) has always been a system integrator problem. Until very recently, they were not user customizable - which means the initialisation was part of the proprietary firmware and hard to port across even different implementations of the same SoC.

The x86 world had the advantage of user upgradable GPUs, which necessitates standardization and common firmware.

On top of which, the accelerated graphics of cell phones is a horrible kludge of various standards.

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