Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Sep 2007 20:09 UTC, submitted by Michael
"Not only is AMD providing the open-source community with their ATI GPU specifications, but they have also been partnering with Novell on the development of a new open-source display driver. We've been telling you about AMD's open-source work all month, and today the new driver is finally available for download. It is still very much a work in progress and isn't much further along than the open-source R500 Avivo driver. However, this new driver does support the Radeon HD 2000 (R600) family. This new X.Org driver is called RadeonHD."
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2006-01-17
Yes, it is interesting to see that Linux kernel community stubborness is producing fruit and tech giants like AMD/ATI are bending back and cooperating.
In this case AMD realizes that they can benefit from symbiosis with Linux again (on GPGPU) just as they did with Opteron (i.e. AMD64 instruction set).