So_it_goes Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/Virtual...~119281,00.html Don't know if this is old news. // Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 (edited) I thought the real big news was they are opening the specs on ati graphics cards as of September 10: http://www.linux.com/feature/119049 AMD briefed Linux.com this morning on a pending announcement regarding the open sourcing of drivers for ATI graphics cards. It's official -- AMD will make code and specifications for ATI graphics cards available on the Internet on September 10. We spoke with Phil Hester, senior vice president and CTO at AMD, and Chris Schlaeger, director of AMD's Operating System Research Center, along with Jon Carvill, AMD's manager of public relations. They confirmed the rumors reported earlier on Slashdot, that everything necessary for community-driven and -maintained 2-D and 3-D drivers for ATI Radeon X1000 and HD 2000 graphics will be made available next week. This is huge; it means fully functional open source drivers for ati graphics cards are just around the corner. This will put pressure on nvidia to open up their specs since both ati and intel have opened theirs. Edited September 7, 2007 by pmpatrick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 This is huge; it means fully functional open source drivers for ati graphics cards are just around the corner. This will put pressure on nvidia to open up their specs since both ati and intel have opened theirs. Correction: no-one has their specs really out in the open. Intel has open source/ free software drivers, in the mainline kernel, including 3d accelleration. This means: any recent kernel will have 3d accel out of the box on Intel graphics. But their specs are not freely available. So ATI goes from number 3 to number 1 - pole position! Well, as soon as functional 3d drivers are a reality. Way to go AMD! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 Hopefully ATI will have better Linux support as a result of this. Has always been hit-and-miss trying to get ATI cards working, whereas NVidia has always been much easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
So_it_goes Posted September 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2007 900 pages of specifications of R600 cards in the HD series. Someone having trouble sleeping ? :D http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ Haven't read it but comments says 3D and older cards specs is missing and will( hopefully ) be added later. // Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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