a new road for AMD and ATI

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Sep 5, 2007 11:57 PM EDT
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Back at the Red Hat Summit, Henri Richard said that AMD (and the former ATI) were going to come up with a plan to better support open source. Today we see the results of that promise and I have to say I’m incredibly impressed with the commitment that they have decided to make. OK, to the meat of the story. AMD is making the commitment to do two major things: To develop of a fully functional 2D and 3D driver that supports all of their newer radeon chipsets in full collaboration with the open source community and to release documentation that anyone can use to build and support drivers for their chips.

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It's official: ATI Radeon drivers to be open sourced henke54 1 1,075 Sep 6, 2007 2:41 PM
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