Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Sep 2007 20:10 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Daniel Stone is announcing the avalability of the first AMD/ATI specs - chips RV630 and M56 apparently. The specifications are released without an NDA.
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2006-01-04
For those who don't know,
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RV630: Radeon HD 2400 series
M56: Radeon X1600 series.
The M56 also seems to be called RV530, or at least based on it. I don't really understand the relationship.
I've long criticised ATi for their Linux support, and it's fantastic that this looks set to change. This is especially good now that we have actual evidence that it's not just an empty promise. I hope AMD/ATi continue to release specifications, and I will support it by ensuring that all future hardware I buy has an AMD/ATI graphics processor instead of nVidia; and if you want to support graphics on Linux, I'd suggest you do the same