Originally posted by smitty3268
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AMD Releases Radeon HD 6000 Series Open-Source Support
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If hardware vendors won't start some serious support of their products on Linux, less and less Linux users will want to buy and use them; also, lack of hardware support is one of the major causes of people sticking with Windows rather than anything else. This obviously leads software developers to ignore Linux itself as an appetible target for their projects, since the userbase is neglectible. And that last thing leads hardware vendors to ignore Linux, and so on and so forth. This is a vicious circle that has to be broken somewhere, and day-1 hardware support is one of the best ways to do that. And if it's open-source, it's a whole lot better.
I was waiting for this news since I bought my Radeon HD 6870 last November, and now I can finally install Linux on my desktop box without the hassle of hacking with the Catalyst suite; for this, I want to thank John Bridgman and everyone else working on the open-source radeon drivers.
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Originally posted by agd5f View PostThe advantage of tracking and working the upstream projects (kernel, mesa, X) is that your code will always work with the latest releases. The disadvantage is that it will need some work and there will be some lag to port to older releases. If you track older releases, there will be work and lag required to support newer ones.
The open drivers track the latest releases. They catch a lot of grief for not supporting older releases immediately, although most distros do a good job of backporting the necessary changes.
The closed drivers target current releases, but that means there is usually a lag catching up the support for the latest kernel/X releases. They catch grief for not supporting the latest kernel/X releases immediately.
Neither option is perfect.
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Originally posted by FunkyRider View PostThe whole linux graphics driver stack is flawed.
We don't need to wait for some years for a new version of Windows to run a new graphics card, instead we install the vendor provided driver.
Without the ability to dynamically expand drivers, Xorg will forever be the second class citizen in graphics world.
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Originally posted by Mazur View PostWoah AMD, now I am seriously thinking about coming back to my old HD 5670 (or 5650, I can't remember) from NVIDIA 8600 GT but seriously how is support for Evergreen now comparing to this HD 6000?
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