AMD: Accelerating Open-Source Drivers?

Vikingod · Sep 5, 2007, 03:51 PM

Source: Phoronix
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So far today at Phoronix we've published the AMD 8.41 Display Driver Preview, ATI R300/400 Linux Performance, ATI R500 Linux Performance, and ATI Radeon HD 2900XT Linux Performance -- yet, it's only ten minutes past midnight! However, looking at AMD's official statement on the Linux driver, there is a rather interesting sentence about good things to come...

The official AMD press release states: "In the coming months AMD also plans to accelerate efforts to address the needs of the open source community as well." But what does this mean? Are they opening up the fglrx driver? Are they providing specifications? Are they just making a better binary blob so the open-source community will just want reverse engineer it more?

bug77 · Sep 5, 2007, 06:22 PM

Eh, only a statement. Meanwhile nvidia is still running circles around ATI/AMD...

A shame, really, but it leaves the impression everything in the ATI camp is chaotic, at least compared with the competition.

Sep 5, 2007, 03:51 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	AMD: Accelerating Open-Source Drivers? Source: Phoronix ___________ So far today at Phoronix we've published the AMD 8.41 Display Driver Preview, ATI R300/400 Linux Performance, ATI R500 Linux Performance, and ATI Radeon HD 2900XT Linux Performance -- yet, it's only ten minutes past midnight! However, looking at AMD's official statement on the Linux driver, there is a rather interesting sentence about good things to come... The official AMD press release states: "In the coming months AMD also plans to accelerate efforts to address the needs of the open source community as well." But what does this mean? Are they opening up the fglrx driver? Are they providing specifications? Are they just making a better binary blob so the open-source community will just want reverse engineer it more?

Sep 5, 2007, 06:22 PM	#2
bug77 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: around Posts: 792 Rep Power: 0	Eh, only a statement. Meanwhile nvidia is still running circles around ATI/AMD... A shame, really, but it leaves the impression everything in the ATI camp is chaotic, at least compared with the competition.