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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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THANK YOU!

by spikeb on Wed 5th Sep 2007 17:37 UTC

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2006-01-18

Horray and thank you very, very much ATI/AMD! Not only for the opened specs (which are VERY appreciated) but the upcoming binary driver as well.

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RE: THANK YOU!

by tyrione on Wed 5th Sep 2007 22:30 in reply to "THANK YOU!"

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2005-11-21

What the hell did people expect? They sell CPUs/GPUs and now they want to compete with Intel on the integrated graphics front.

It would be suicide not supporting Linux.

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RE: THANK YOU!

by flanque on Thu 6th Sep 2007 01:15 in reply to "THANK YOU!"

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2005-12-15

I can only hope that nVidia counter this by opening their architecture up as well.

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