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a new road for AMD and ATI

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 3 comments
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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

Sander_Marechal Story submitter ·
It's a bit of a misleading title, but great news :-) If I understand it correctly, ATI won't simply open the code for their current drivers but write new drivers, together with the community. Probably because there's too much non-ATI code in the current closed drivers. It's likely that parts from the closed source drivers will be ported to the open drivers though.

It is about time!

softwarejanitor ·
Definitely a good move on AMD/ATI's part. If this finally results in a stable and decent performing driver for ATI chipsets, I will start considering them again instead of insisting on nVidia chips. I've never liked having to use nVidia's proprietary drivers, but unfortunately right now they are pretty much the only way to go and get something that works for my needs.

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