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Originally posted by bridgman View PostYou're kidding, right ? Six months to write an entire open source driver stack from scratch with the same functionality as radeon / -ati / radeonsi / amdgcn (llvm) ?
I'm sure you understand that legal/IP review is required before going public, not just for going upstream but I feel the need to say it anyways
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostYou're kidding, right ? Six months to write an entire open source driver stack from scratch with the same functionality as radeon / -ati / radeonsi / amdgcn (llvm) ?
I'm sure you understand that legal/IP review is required before going public, not just for going upstream but I feel the need to say it anyways
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Originally posted by nanonyme View PostWe do realize legal/IP review is an expensive and time-consuming process but as is there's no visibility or even tentative ETA's for the effort. That's not particularly nice
We are trying to get the code out in time to make the 3.21 merge window if possible. Not sure if we will make it though.Test signature
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Originally posted by elmo23x View PostIs there anybody that knows how is the power usage of the open source drivers compared to catalyst? In particular while using the desktop with 3D effects enabled. Thanks!
Originally posted by bridgman View PostOriginally posted by profoundWHALE View PostI'm fairly certain that the performance and features of the newer AMD cards will be mostly on par due to the whole new open source graphics driver that AMD is pushing.
As for the older cards... Keep your fingers crossed?
What I'm really liking is that it will be able to integrate so much better with the kernel, which should give better performance regardless.
Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostIt's certainly taking as much time as a "whole new open source graphics driver".
Over 6 months now and still nothing.
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As i have got a Nvidia Optimus script ready to output Nvidia cards to Intel or AMD gfx ports (i know that there are no laptops with AMD+Nvidia, but it works). But why does fglrx not support this for the muxless systems? You only get an error in the xorg log file if you try to init fglrx on those, btw. some systems works with older fglrx drivers via hdmi, that does not work anymore... So only oss drivers can be used via prime.
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