Some people seem to have some difficulties understanding that the whole X infrastructure has been largely rehauled these last years and I guess it's kind of a moving target for drivers devs.
The choice of supporting OSS drivers by AMD has allowed them also to work on the Mesa 3D Stack, improving the whole infrastructure for everyone. I guess AMD could have decided just to concentrate their development effort to the binary blob and like Nvidia, only just provide their OpenGL stack as binary only, completely replacing the OSS one, and I suppose, in that case, that they could have continued to support older cards, not having to pay people to write OSS software.
I appreciate the fact that they decided to do otherwise and to help improve the whole OSS graphic stack.
I also appreciate AMD devs presence on this forum : it's very nice to have inside news. :-)
The choice of supporting OSS drivers by AMD has allowed them also to work on the Mesa 3D Stack, improving the whole infrastructure for everyone. I guess AMD could have decided just to concentrate their development effort to the binary blob and like Nvidia, only just provide their OpenGL stack as binary only, completely replacing the OSS one, and I suppose, in that case, that they could have continued to support older cards, not having to pay people to write OSS software.
I appreciate the fact that they decided to do otherwise and to help improve the whole OSS graphic stack.
I also appreciate AMD devs presence on this forum : it's very nice to have inside news. :-)
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