AMD to open up graphics specs

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Sep 5 15:35:30 UTC 2007


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




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