AMD: Accelerating Open-Source Drivers?

[Michael]

AMD's efforts are indeed focused on the R600 (and R500) series.

[yoshi314]

I am assuming that R300/400 is purely "legacy" hardware now.

it will be legacy when more people will have r600/r500 than r300/r400. currently it's far from it.

[R3MF]

hooray for ATI

there is now a chance that i will purchase an ATI/AMD video card.

i have always preffered AMD and I have wanted to purchase ATI since the acquisition, but found myself totally unable to do so in the face of awful linux drivers.

i know the hardware is equivalent to that of nVidia, so with the driver issue out of the way i may well be tempted to buy ATI vid-cards in future.

[chrisr]

Could AMD be about to release R300/400 specs?

That's the obvious inference, if AMD would rather concentrate on the R500/600 chips these days. I am assuming that R300/400 is purely "legacy" hardware now.

[hmmm]

I just hope when the code is released, it's in a form that can be easily be integrated with current open source drivers. The recent work being done on AVIVO and the ati open source drivers is very good.

[schestowitz]

Hey guys,

You can help by Digging this (if you have a Digg account and only if you think it's Digg-worthy).

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Breakthrough_ATI_AMD_Driver_Has_Just_Become_up_to_10_Times_Faster

It seems like it'll make it into the front page.

Thanks!

Roy

[miltiad]

Can't wait !

Keep up the good work Phoronix guy(s?) !

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD: Accelerating Open-Source Drivers?

So far today at Phoronix we've published the AMD 8.41 Display Driver Preview, ATI R300/400 Linux Performance, ATI R500 Linux Performance, and ATI Radeon HD 2900XT Linux Performance -- yet, it's only ten minutes past midnight! However, looking at AMD's official statement on the Linux driver, there is a rather interesting sentence about good things to come...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=10977