How Old ATI GPUs Can Be Faster On Open Drivers

[smitty3268]

ST3C on r600g

Great news!

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=8e0437914bb786d0b05be8f95e4ff37bf5a19f44

+ a couple of the previous commits to fix the issues LiquidAcid found.

Thank you Dave Airlie!

[Drago]

Thank you Dave. What you did today is a massive leap in r600g, and its future usage. Happy You rock!

[crazycheese]

sure and what is the point of that? for AMD as a capitalist company the OS driver is PR.

but at this point PR is good and amd need good PR to.

Did you even read Bridgman's response? You can do that, and the number of responses you get is going to be way, way, WAY under 1% of total sales. Which would then mean they'd end up cutting Linux developers. If you mean they should compare responses from Linux users to Windows users, that opens up the whole "gaming the system" argument.

Great news!

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=8e0437914bb786d0b05be8f95e4ff37bf5a19f44

+ a couple of the previous commits to fix the issues LiquidAcid found.

Thank you Dave Airlie!

I want to give creators, such as Dave, MONEY with each AMD hardware I purchase, because such people as Dave - matter.

I want to give money for progress!

And I'm sure I'm not alone!

Is this hard to understand?

Is windows drivers develop different? Are they financed by aliens from outerspace or what?

Untill this is revised - AMD opensource drivers will be low quality/lacking/unusable/always staying behind!

Are IBM/Oracle/Novell/RedHat also pay kernel developers based on 1% OS desktop market unlinked to their company sells?

The resonse I get from Bridgeman is simple: the drivers are good & we are interested in improving them.

[crazycheese]

we are interested in improving them.

By donating money from unknown charity.

[Drago]

I am waiting, and I am going to buy Llano, exactly because AMD openness. Otherwise I would have gone nv. Crazycheese, bare in mind that previous christmass we celebrated gears on r600c. The last year was a fantastic progress.

[bridgman]

Are IBM/Oracle/Novell/RedHat also pay kernel developers based on 1% OS desktop market unlinked to their company sells?

Most kernel developers are paid based on the much higher server OS market share, which was closer to 30% than to 1% last time I looked. It's just things like graphics and sound that are tied to the client (aka desktop) market size.

[crazycheese]

Most kernel developers are paid based on the much higher server OS market share, which was closer to 30% than to 1% last time I looked. It's just things like graphics and sound that are tied to the client (aka desktop) market size.

You do not want to lead the innovation, nor see opensource radeon as any vital part of your company portfolio. I understand.

[bridgman]

OK, you lost me there. How did this go from "IBM/Oracle/Novell/RedHat" to being about me ?

[whitecat]

Great news!

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=8e0437914bb786d0b05be8f95e4ff37bf5a19f44

+ a couple of the previous commits to fix the issues LiquidAcid found.

Thank you Dave Airlie!

Great !
I will try as soon it's in rawhide

[Shining Arcanine]

You do not want to lead the innovation, nor see opensource radeon as any vital part of your company portfolio. I understand.

With customers like you, AMD does not need competitors. Do AMD a favor and switch to Nvidia.