In this case, a rising tide lifts both boats... and things like this will make it easier to get new hardware working quickly.
Release day drivers depend on vendors really - intel completely blew Sandy Bridge (although the platform has even worse problems!) and the 6900 series has a new VLIW design that will take a while to adapt to - i.e. a new/changed shader compiler.
Looking forward Linux in mobile devices (Android kinda counts) is going to become more important and getting PowerVR specs (reverse engineered or vendor) is the next big hurdle.
Release day drivers depend on vendors really - intel completely blew Sandy Bridge (although the platform has even worse problems!) and the 6900 series has a new VLIW design that will take a while to adapt to - i.e. a new/changed shader compiler.
Looking forward Linux in mobile devices (Android kinda counts) is going to become more important and getting PowerVR specs (reverse engineered or vendor) is the next big hurdle.
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