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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2006-01-17
That kind of thing might be supported in proprietary drivers. Now that both players have in fact same OpenGL driver running on Vista/XP and Linux, we can say that Linux caught up in terms of OpenGL performance.
MS unfortunately controls DirectX API and it seems to be slowly pushing out OpenGL games out of the Windows market (even in FPS niche), while it's highly unlikely that we'll see DX becoming cross platform (with exception of X360 of course), unless Wine and DRI folks continue making miracles.
Of course MS supports the still irrelevant Silverlight on Linux, how convenient. strange that they don't think about opening and porting some more important API's.