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Originally posted by yoshi314 View Post7.12 - "holidays come first" :]
i bet they found something embarrassing in the driver, and pulled it (maybe it was incorrectly packaged or something).
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Originally posted by Crunchy View PostI can't see they can have found something major, if that was the case it would have to be pulled and fixed/QA'ed or scrapped. It must be something minor like a server/mirror hiccup.
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Things are looking good now!At least now Michael can tell us know someting about the driver release date, so we don't slashdot the site refreshing the page every 2 seconds like junkies without drugs!
I bet that the new team from amd/ati will give us a nice Christmas present(they had 2 months for that).
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Originally posted by Svartalf View PostBiggest complaint that I have is that everyone over at AMD knows what the real market is (Larger than you'd think- and getting larger by the day, believe it or not...) and they didn't do what needed to be done to resolve the problem. That's one of the places that I've my biggest beef.
Originally posted by Svartalf View PostYou'll note you're verbally jousting with me
Originally posted by Svartalf View PostOpen sourcing the driver is probably out of the question. Releasing the technical data, sans anything to do with things like Macrovision control, isn't- and should never have been an issue. AMD's rectifying that one right now, they just got to make sure there's no leakage of protection stuff, etc. so it takes time for them to validate that they're doing their due dilligence there.
Originally posted by Svartalf View PostActually, it's not as big as you'd think. Microsoft's numbers are heavily skewed- and that's what everyone and his dog is going off of. But, even THAT impression is changing. I watched at one of my client companies where not one, but TWO of the main OEM players (you figure which two out of Dell, Lenovo, IBM, HP, etc. they were... ) tell the client company that they had to have compelling performance on their network part ON Linux, preferably Open Sourced driver support- or they weren't going to carry their product. PERIOD. It was part of why they'd hired me- to salvage the situation.
Originally posted by Svartalf View PostMost of the people in the groups weren't doing that until some of the AMD fanboy types (Yes, there were some in here...) started making snide remarks. Someone made an ill-chosen choice of comments and then it really was on.And, I've been trying ever since to get people to cool their jets. It's not working. I wonder why?
Originally posted by Svartalf View PostUntil AMD gets it straightened out, one way or another, their GPU products, under Linux, is solely for the brave at heart or the lucky. That's what most people have actually been saying.
Originally posted by Svartalf View PostYOU try dealing with a part that the supplier claims is supported by the driver, only to find out that it only works in a degenerate, suboptimal mode of operation
I look forward to dealing with ARM11 or PowerPC for future products. Perhaps in time if the support is there I'll end up with x86 processors that AMD are currently developing for the low power space.
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