AMD Releases A New Catalyst 14.6 Beta For Linux

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Releases A New Catalyst 14.6 Beta For Linux

Those dependent upon AMD's Linux binary blob can rejoice that today there's an updated driver available after a rather quiet June for Catalyst Linux development...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTc0MTk

[ChemicalBrother]

Do you even care to research, what is really new? The "new" things you describe are from last month, when the 14.6 beta driver was released.

[przemoli]

Do you even care to research, what is really new? The "new" things you describe are from last month, when the 14.6 beta driver was released.

This forum is good at finding new treats like those.

Giving complete changelog for beta software is common practice for all GPU vendors. (Mesa is only exception. It do not have any betas :P)
Blame vendor, not messanger.

[eydee]

Do you even care to research, what is really new? The "new" things you describe are from last month, when the 14.6 beta driver was released.

It is actually a new version of 14.6 beta, dated only 3 years ago, probably just released. Care to do some research...

[uid313]

Still no Wayland support.
Probably buggy and slow as usual and what you come to expect from Catalyst.

AMD should just abandon the Linux Catalyst driver and put all their efforts behind the open source drivers instead.

[Goddard]

This was released last month right?

Also why would they stop supporting the binary blob version when it is better then the open source version. They obviously have some code they think is some how special. It must be special considering it is better then the Open version. Maybe you should contribute to them.

[AnonymousCoward]

they planned release 14.7 but because it doesn't pass quality tests. http://devgurus.amd.com/message/1304834#1304834 IMHO this is not that better driver.

[przemoli]

Still no Wayland support.
Probably buggy and slow as usual and what you come to expect from Catalyst.

AMD should just abandon the Linux Catalyst driver and put all their efforts behind the open source drivers instead.

Sadly AMD still have customers who require Catalyst:

1) Compute/Render-like power houses. They wont use Radeon without feature & performance parity with Catalyst.

2) Game Devs. They wont use Radeon without feature & performance parity with Catalyst, and same ease of updates.

Radeon partly fulfill second group needs (on per game basis is yes or no, but it seam that game devs go to AMD, and AMD direct them to Catalyst driver team...)

Good news is that game devs start to see that Radeon is better quality, better support (just IRC, no middle mans, though they are sometimes usefull), and sometimes its only option. Period.

First group wont move. Period.

So You basically say that AMD should SHRINK they market.


Even abandoning Catalyst for gaming would mean less performance and thus less sales.

Workable proposition thus would be constacting everybody who gets AMD driver team reps, with Radeon team too. That would help Radeon team to fullfill needs of 2) and ultimatly of 1).

[Sdar]

they planned release 14.7 but because it doesn't pass quality tests. http://devgurus.amd.com/message/1304834#1304834 IMHO this is not that better driver.

No, they're going to release 14.7 drivers without the Opencl FIX there's a 14.7 RC1 Windows driver already without it.

AMD doesn't give a shit about Opencl they're not going to delay a driver release just for a ultra low priority bug.

[varikonniemi]

Why does it extract to version 14.20?