Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 7th Sep 2007 21:03 UTC
AMD The news already got out yesterday, but now it's official: AMD will open the specifications to its graphics chips. "AMD announced on Sept. 7 a major strategic change in open-source graphic processors support. The company announced it would provide open-source information and a development package supporting the ATI RadeonHD 2000 series ATI Radeon X1000 series of graphics processing units on Linux desktops." The new information is that AMD will partner with Novell's SUSE team.
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RE: specs and docs
by Finalzone on Fri 7th Sep 2007 23:09 UTC in reply to "specs and docs"
Finalzone
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2005-07-06

OpenBSD intention to get full documentation and specification from hardware is noble but they need to deal with reality that it is not that easy in hardware manufacturers world especially where there are some third party patented specifications to deal with.

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RE[2]: specs and docs
by KugelKurt on Sat 8th Sep 2007 09:53 in reply to "RE: specs and docs"
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2005-07-06

I don’t think that the OpenBSD devs think it’s an easy task. They try anyway, because without trying you can’t achieve anything.

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RE[2]: specs and docs
by slight on Sat 8th Sep 2007 15:27 in reply to "RE: specs and docs"
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2006-09-10

That's exactly what AMD and ATi are doing here.

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