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AMD To Drop Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 Catalyst Support
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Originally posted by zoomblab View PostHello Linux kernel developers! Real companies with real products NEED stable APIs and ABIs. It allows them to apply the fire and forget strategy. On windows a driver that was written 10 years ago will continue to work reliably indefinitely. On Linux you need to maintain your past products in a perpetual manner. This costs loads of time and money. How hard is to understand simple facts?
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Originally posted by AlbertP View PostThere are API's enough in the Linux kernel, only the AMD developers don't use them. Instead they go deeply into the kernel (where the API isn't as stable) to provide something proprietary that looks like Windows to be able to re-use as much as possible code in the W and L versions of Catalyst.
The stable API for graphics is called the 'Direct Rendering Infrastructure Protocol'
It's the API that userland graphics applications can use to communicate with the Linux kernel DRM driver.
The Linux kernel has stable APIs and ABIs all over the place.
If ATI and Nvidia wants to create and use their own APIs, which is what they do with their proprietary drivers, it's up to them to maintain them. Nobody else can do it _BECAUSE_IT_IS_PROPRIETARY_.
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Is Gnome Shell at least supported ?
Hi,
Sounds quite a bad news for me, I've just bought the most powerful AGP card I could find to upgrade my old computer : an Ati/AMD Radeon HD3000...
I hope at least Gnome Shell is working right now, so I can use it for a couple of years !
I don't care if they drop the Catalyst driver, but they need to put more manpower on the opensource side, let's hope...
R?mi.
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Proprietary
This is why proprietary software sucks, and proprietary device drivers.
Now you are forced to upgrade and cash out more money and put your old hardware on the dump and contribute to e-waste.
Or you're stuck with old opeating system and window system.
With open source software, the communtiy can continue maintain device drivers after the company have abadoned it.
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I use a Radeon IGP HD 3200 and I don't care much that AMD drops support for this card in their future drivers. Regnum Online works ok with the free Radeon driver as well, so not a big deal for me. Currently I even don't use the proprietary driver.
For people where proprietary driver support for their card is essential can easily use more conservative distros like Red Hat (and maybe also conservative Debian) based distros. It's not unlikely that even Red Hat 7 will still support Catalyst <12.7. Or otherwise just use the OS which probably more than 90% of AMD/ATI customers use preferably.
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Originally posted by remjg View PostHi,
Sounds quite a bad news for me, I've just bought the most powerful AGP card I could find to upgrade my old computer : an Ati/AMD Radeon HD3000...
I hope at least Gnome Shell is working right now, so I can use it for a couple of years !
I don't care if they drop the Catalyst driver, but they need to put more manpower on the opensource side, let's hope...
R?mi.
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