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Originally posted by mirv View PostThey could add 20 more developers and people would still complain. So why waste the money?
Unfortunately it's also the case of that sometimes, too many developers can be a bad thing - sometimes you need a small core group to bring cohesion to the project until it's in a more suitable state.
Then, of course, you need people who know what they're doing as well - but I'm not sure that's such a big problem for them.
Not saying any of that does or does not apply to AMD's open source drivers, just wanted to illustrate that it's not always as easy as throwing developers at the problem.
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uh...often because people have different coding styles, different opinions to how things are done, are at different levels of training, may not be aware of what everyone is doing - should I go on?
There's plenty of reasons why you can't just throw developers at a problem.
But then, I'm aware you're just trolling and being childish.
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Originally posted by Qaridariumthe most interesting think for linux is the radeon OS linux driver.
but the 6970 is really new and a new gpu architecture.
the 6870 is the old architecture and no OS driver yet.
why not buy an amd card with OS driver support right now without waiting ?
I don't want to go for 5xxx series simply because it's a year old, and there's no point in buying something that's been superceeded by a newer generation already. And I don't really want to rely on opensource drivers, because of their lack of proper OpenGL and OpenCL support. And things like KMS don't buy me at all, so I really want a good proprietary driver.
Originally posted by Gps4lWait a few months.
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Originally posted by mirv View Postuh...often because people have different coding styles, different opinions to how things are done, are at different levels of training, may not be aware of what everyone is doing - should I go on?
There's plenty of reasons why you can't just throw developers at a problem.
But then, I'm aware you're just trolling and being childish.
2. Sticks and stones...
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Originally posted by eldar View PostI didn't quite get you, aren't both 68xx and 69xx a new gpu architecture, and the latter just being a bigger and more performant chip?
I don't want to go for 5xxx series simply because it's a year old, and there's no point in buying something that's been superceeded by a newer generation already. And I don't really want to rely on opensource drivers, because of their lack of proper OpenGL and OpenCL support. And things like KMS don't buy me at all, so I really want a good proprietary driver.
Well, again that's one more thing which may turn me away from ATI. NVIDIA has already released a driver for GTX 570 that came out a week ago. That's a level of support, that I would like to have. In 6 months AMD will already give us next generation of graphics cards and it becomes a joke to wait a few months for this generation to become fully functional. Please, correct me if I'm wrong.
No. you are spot on.
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Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View PostWait, I thought that Catalyst supported HD6000 stuff?
What are you talking about? OSS drivers or Catalyst?
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Originally posted by Qaridariumthe windows release driver for the hd6970 is an alpha 2011.1 catalyst
means the linux driver get the same code base with the 2011.1 catalyst.
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