AMD to open up graphics specs
Hi
Free software is winning. With the existing excellent support from Intel
and the upcoming AMD support, Nvidia will be left as the odd ball.
http://lwn.net/Articles/248227/
"A quick report from the kernel summit: AMD's representative at the
summit has announced that the company has made a decision to enable the
development of open source drivers for all of its (ATI) graphics
processors from the R500 going forward. There will be specifications
available and a skeleton driver as well; a free 2D driver is anticipated
by the end of the year. The rest will have to be written; freeing of the
existing binary-only driver is not in the cards, and "that is better for
everybody." Things are looking good on this front. More in the kernel
summit report to come."
Rahul