Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Sep 2007 17:24 UTC, submitted by Rahul
LWN.net writes: "A quick report from the kernel summit: AMD's representative at the summit has announced that the company has made a decision to enable the development of open source drivers for all of its (ATI) graphics processors from the R500 going forward. There will be specifications available and a skeleton driver as well; a free 2D driver is anticipated by the end of the year. The rest will have to be written; freeing of the existing binary-only driver is not in the cards, and 'that is better for everybody'. Things are looking good on this front. More in the kernel summit report to come."
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2006-01-17
This is pretty sweet.
And now I'll be a shit-kicking jerk: to all those "pragmatists" who used to claim we should be grateful that they are making drivers for us at all and that we should just be happy with the binary drivers, look at what being a purist can get you. If the "zealots" hadn't kept at it, insisting that ATI open up, they wouldn't have.