johnniecarcinogen Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 From 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62494-amd-to-open-up-ati-graphics-specs/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffton Beach Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 If they had given a hint of this a year ago, I might have ended up with AMD again instead of jumping ship to Core 2. I also might have considered AMD/ATI instead of sticking with nVidia. This announcement might get them some business going forward, but came too late for me (for this upgrade cycle anyway) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62494-amd-to-open-up-ati-graphics-specs/#findComment-450384 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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