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Put differently, the contract doesn't say that you have to stay in the armoured car but it does say that you have to survive when everyone is shooting at you

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There are also a number of places where proprietary drivers over-write chunks of the common framework in order to add proprietary features, where the complexity/functionality tradeoff makes it hard for the community to justify adding that functionality to the common code. Features like Multiview and Crossfire both involve a lot of code outside the 3D driver as well as the obvious 3D changes. This will get easier over time, however -- Eyefinity does reduce the importance of Multiview, for example, and ever-increasing 3D performance may mean we can compete without Crossfire at some point in the future -- but IMO we also need to get to the point where the open source driver community is willing to live with at least a subset of the constraints that come from hosting a proprietary 3D stack on the same code, and I don't feel like we are there yet. The solution may be as simple as branching and re-merging the kernel & X driver code at the right times; it feels do-able anyways.
The bigger task would be re-factoring, opening and merging in the proprietary low-level code from fglrx into the open drivers (basically memory management and command submission) and having that accepted by the open source driver community for use with the open drivers as well.
Anyways, bottom line is that we are always looking at this stuff, that passage of time makes some of it easier, that we are heading in the direction you want, and that it's a lot harder than it appears at first glance

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