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AMD Releases 3D Programming Documentation

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For the past several weeks we have been referencing AMD's "tcore" in several of our articles, which is a user-space software suite that has been developed and used internally at ATI by engineers to work on various aspects of their binary drivers. Tcore is primarily used for testing prior to the availability of the actual silicon for their forthcoming graphics processors. John Bridgman and Alex Deucher have been working tediously to get this tcore source-code sanitized and cleared for public release, and finally they have reached this milestone. AMD has just published the first bits of open-source 3D programming documentation for ATI GPUs. This 3D programming documentation covers the R500 series and even goes back with information on the R300/400 series as well. The R600 3D programming guide will also be out soon. This information available today is what will foster the growth of open-source R500/600 3D support for the Radeon and RadeonHD drivers as well as R600 2D acceleration.

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Comments (4)

beirwin ·
Thinks are looking up for free and open 3D Linux drivers.
hkwint ·
Also for Linux games, at FOSDEM there were several talks about Linux game development platforms (some of them multiplayer) and talks about 3d rendering. Combine both and the next five consecutive January's we might say "this year will be the year of Linux gaming'
Sander_Marechal ·
Yeah, things are definitely looking up. At FOSDEM I went to an X.org dev talk about the Nouveau drivers. It's looking pretty good. They showed off Alien Arena running on the latest Nouveau. I have pics. I'll post them along with the article later on.
npan ·
Everybody do your bit for Intel and Amd/Ati. Buy and recommend Intel solutions that contain their graphics technology or buy Ati cards that are covered under the documentation. Tell the vendors that you are purchasing these products as a direct result of these companies stance towards FOSS.

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