OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/24537/Graphics-enabled_CPUs_to_take_off_in_2011 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 21 May 2013 22:22:22 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Drivers http://www.osnews.com/thread?466813 http://www.osnews.com/thread?466813 Will drivers be needed to benefit from any of these features? Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jondice) Comments RE: Drivers http://www.osnews.com/thread?466837 http://www.osnews.com/thread?466837 Hi,

Will drivers be needed to benefit from any of these features?


Yes.

- Brendan Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Brendan) Comments RE: Drivers http://www.osnews.com/thread?466871 http://www.osnews.com/thread?466871
Will drivers be needed to benefit from any of these features?


Open source drivers for AMD fusion APUs were announced at almost the same time that the chips were:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODc5Mw

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_ontario_...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_fusion_e...

AMD is starting a significant effort to boost its Linux driver capabilities:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTIwNA

This effort is probably centred around Fusion, and probably Android. Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lemur2) Comments RE: Drivers http://www.osnews.com/thread?466889 http://www.osnews.com/thread?466889 Believing that GPU manufacturers have enough common sense to realize how much of a stupid idea nonstandard hardware interfaces are ?

If only... Sat, 19 Mar 2011 13:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Neolander) Comments RE[2]: Drivers http://www.osnews.com/thread?466911 http://www.osnews.com/thread?466911 So Linux will get support for APUs, but the majority of open source operating systems will not have it for some time.

Linux != All Open Source Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (laffer1) Comments RE[3]: Drivers http://www.osnews.com/thread?466934 http://www.osnews.com/thread?466934
So Linux will get support for APUs, but the majority of open source operating systems will not have it for some time.

Linux != All Open Source

Linux is the new Windows. Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thomas2005) Comments RE[4]: Drivers http://www.osnews.com/thread?466940 http://www.osnews.com/thread?466940 Could this be the true meaning of the long-predicted "day of the Linux desktop" ? Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Neolander) Comments RE[3]: Drivers http://www.osnews.com/thread?467008 http://www.osnews.com/thread?467008
So Linux will get support for APUs, but the majority of open source operating systems will not have it for some time.

Linux != All Open Source


Neither xorg nor DRI is specific to Linux. This driver probably wont work on the BSD:s due to lack of kernel mode setting, but still. Sun, 20 Mar 2011 16:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nej_simon) Comments