Dave Airlie has got it right I think :
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No announcement yet.
"AMD will soon deliver open graphics drivers"
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Also I'm a bit confused by "open graphics drivers". Why produce all the hype by mentioning "open", without the "-source"?
I really hope they do publish the entire graphics driver, instead of just opening parts, that aren't full IP that AMD wants to keep a secret.
But asking for specs, we've got a shot. Hopefully the specs will be forthcoming. I've got hope seeing as they *DIDN'T* use the terms you mentioned.
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Originally posted by Michael View PostMy comments will come later . And yes, AMD's statements are real.
In all honesty, I want to see this be that they're releasing sufficient register specs- code would be okay, but letting us know how to drive it from Mesa/DRI would be better.
I guess we'll see what they're going to do in short term, eh?Last edited by Svartalf; 13 May 2007, 09:27 PM.
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I won't believe this until I see an official announcement from AMD (not from ATI). An announcement made by someone other than a marketing guy. And that looks like this:
AMD is pleased to announce that the driver code for all its cards will be released under open source license x. We look forward to working directly with the xorg and kernel teams, and hope to get our drivers into the kernel and xorg as soon as possible.
I do however believe that AMD may do this, because when you consider very large rollouts in offices etc, those types of systems will almost never use standalone gfx cards, and with AMD's plans to more deeply integrate graphics into multicore cpus, along with standard cards or mobo gfx chips, the only real choice is to open the specs, and hopefully the drivers, especially if AMD plans on competing with Intel for real long term.
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Originally posted by Michael View PostMy comments will come later . And yes, AMD's statements are real.
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You misunderstood his statement, AMD won?t publish open source driver, see http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/ for a more accurate analysis of this statement. They will just deliver closed source drivers that suck less than their actual one.
Also I'm a bit confused by "open graphics drivers". Why produce all the hype by mentioning "open", without the "-source"?
I really hope they do publish the entire graphics driver, instead of just opening parts, that aren't full IP that AMD wants to keep a secret.
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from my point of view ati could open everything except for 3rd party code portions, and just keep them as binary-only libraries used when linking the driver.
or they could just replace that 3rd party code with their own. assuming that's legal and posssible (putting aside hdmi etc).
oh well, time will tell how this situation develops.
although i think we would be better off if they just gave out the specs instead of the fglrx source code. i'm getting the impression that fglrx code base is pretty huge just by looking at the size of the compiled driver.Last edited by yoshi314; 13 May 2007, 09:21 AM.
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that would be nice.
but it will still take some time to
- a somebody to wrap his head around the source code to start improving it (like it is with opensourced parts of java now), unless the xorg radeon driver team extracts the specs out of the code and just continues with their work ;-)
- make a difference on the market. because of inertia caused by years of ati's slacking off in the linux department.
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