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AMD Gets Back To Working On The Geode Linux Driver

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Phoronix; By Michael Larabel
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Martin-Éric Racine has just announced the release candidate of the X.Org Geode 2.11.9 driver in preparations for the X.Org 7.6 Katamari. The AMD Geode driver is not to be confused with the AMD/ATI Radeon drivers for Linux, but rather this is the driver Geode GX and Geode LX embedded SoC such as what's used by the One-Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. When announcing this driver, Martin-Éric has shared that AMD engineers are back to actually contributing work towards this driver.

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I thought the Geode LX was a lost cause for modern distributions. It's nice to know that they care about their installed base of users,...

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