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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Member since:2006-03-10
I'm sure there will be a press-release, and quite possibly an AMDti website devoted to it, but c'mon, give'em a chance! Announcements like this are made at trade-shows and cons for a number of good reasons:
1) The news (as you see) permeates the tech talking-shops across the Internet very quickly because it's being relayed by journos and bloggers who are present for just that reason. Many big tech "news" sites won't give a high priority to knocking out an article about something like this.
2) Said "enthusiast" reporters are more apt to report the details of the announcement accurately (compared to some bored PCProMagNewsNet(TM) hack), and with enthusiasm.
3) Expectation of announcements like this is a good way of getting people through the doors of these events, so everybody's happy.
Personally I'd rather they spat it out, than spent more time putting together a fancy website and a showy press launch before doing so.
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2007-03-14
This is really cool news, but.. when? and where?
It would be "cool" if AMD/ATI could start a "website" related to this process.. A centralized informative location.
It's getting rather annoying to just read "second hand" accounts from OSNews etc.. We need an official response!