AMD Is Still Moving Towards A Unified Open-Source Driver

[peppercats]

good

there's absolutely zero reason to keep catalyst closed source when mesa is catching up so fast, at this point it has to just be a duplication of effort

[Luke_Wolf]

See... What'd I tell you Michael? "no comment" and stone walling rarely mean a project is dead in politispeak, it usually just means "We're really not ready to talk about that just yet."

[dungeon]

Which is great, Catalyst users will never complain again that there is no kernel support in time nor need to compile module

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Is Still Moving Towards A Unified Open-Source Driver

Earlier this year I delivered the exclusive news how AMD was looking at a new Linux driver strategy for Catalyst that involved leveraging the open-source Radeon DRM kernel driver. The strategy at the time effectively meant just making Catalyst a user-space blob and riding off the open-source Radeon kernel driver to share more common code and hopefully lead to a better experience. It looks like this driver strategy is moving forward...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTc5ODE