AMD Loses Its Linux Core Engineering Manager

[Apopas]

Thanks for all the Linux work all these years and your contribution to the community Matthew

[bulletxt]

That's like people saying Opera should open-source their browser.

In fact, that's what they should do. And for Matthew Tippett, good luck

[dopehouse]

Good Luck on your next job and many thanks for the driver as it is today. I hope your successor is good as you or even better

Thank you

[m4rgin4l]

Phoronix: AMD Loses Its Linux Core Engineering Manager

AMD's Catalyst Linux driver has improved substantially over the past few years. Years ago the Catalyst Linux driver was in shambles with its performance being utterly poor, it lacked enthusiast-oriented features like CrossFire and OverDrive, and ATI customers had to wait months -- sometimes in excess of a year -- for any driver support in Linux. All of this though has changed with AMD now providing same-day Linux support, a near feature parity to the Windows Catalyst driver, and first-rate performance. Playing a critical role in improving the ATI Linux support has been Matthew Tippett, serving as the engineering manager for Linux Core Engineering since joining ATI Technologies in 2003. To put it in perspective, when Matthew started work at ATI, only the FireGL graphics cards were supported under Linux. However, today will be his last day serving ATI / Advanced Micro Devices.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=14314

Was this the major advancement mentioned in the 9.10 catalyst release article?

Anyway, I wish the best of luck to Matthew on his new projects.

[Michael]

Was this the major advancement mentioned in the 9.10 catalyst release article?

Nope......

[kraftman]

Thank you Matthew

[Zhick]

I'm gonna throw in another "Thank you, Matthew" as well.
After all the quality of fglrx has improved notably, though it's still not quite there yet. But the open drivers are the future anyway.

[d2kx]

Thanks for your work and mails through the... oh wait, NDA :P

Well, good that it's not a goodbye thread, I hope to read more of you on Phoronix in the future :P

[DanL]

I'll bet that anonymous is A.D.

I sure as hell hope not.

[Raine]

Good luck

Good luck with your new job!