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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2006-08-18
Mot only open specs but the new drivers themself seem like a breakthrough: up to 90% performance improvement? That pretty much brings them up to par with the Windows drivers--performance wise. AIGLX and R600 support is nice too.
Of course I might not benefit much with my ancient Radeon 9600 but this news does increase incentive to buy ATI/AMD in the future rather than Nvidia.