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  • Valve Begins Publicly Tracking AMD Catalyst Linux Issues

    Phoronix: Valve Begins Publicly Tracking AMD Catalyst Linux Issues

    Valve's Pierre-Loup A. Griffais has begun publicly listing known issues with AMD's Catalyst Linux graphics support...

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  • #2
    Poor devs, it will become a loooong list
    ## VGA ##
    AMD: X1950XTX, HD3870, HD5870
    Intel: GMA45, HD3000 (Core i5 2500K)

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    • #3
      Issue #1: it sucks

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      • #4
        Issue #1: It's crap.
        Issue #2: It's closed source.
        Issue #3: It will never receive bug fixes in time.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by peppercats View Post
          Issue #1: it sucks
          Issue #1 closed. Running the same test triggers a different bug every time, giving varying levels of suckiness.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Filiprino View Post
            Issue #2: It's closed source.
            Issue #2: Closed. Fill that bug for all games on Steam

            Originally posted by Filiprino View Post
            Issue #3: It will never receive bug fixes in time.
            Issue #3: YMMV, closed by Albert Einstein
            Last edited by dungeon; 16 September 2014, 06:07 PM.

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            • #7
              A game is closed source but at least it doesn't do anything at kernel space.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Filiprino View Post
                A game is closed source but at least it doesn't do anything at kernel space.
                That is security issue then, opensource radeon driver uses closed source firmwares

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by dungeon View Post
                  That is security issue then, opensource radeon driver uses closed source firmwares
                  How many complex devices that need firmware actually have open source firmware?

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by dungeon View Post
                    That is security issue then, opensource radeon driver uses closed source firmwares
                    And your hard drive uses firmware. And monitor. And mouse. And so on. So it basically comes to the question what if could do. GPU lacks network connectivity and in modern systems if it would try something nasty like DMA to unrequested space, IOMMU would engage and illegal access will be caught. Can be an issue on old systems without IOMMU though. However, its not like if relatively small firmware can hold logic to patch arbitrary system. So I guess this problem is limited and not fundamentally worse than, say, HDD firmware (which haves all chances to return you wrong sector, potentially hijacking execution flow of kernel or application).

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