Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Sep 2007 20:10 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Daniel Stone is announcing the avalability of the first AMD/ATI specs - chips RV630 and M56 apparently. The specifications are released without an NDA.
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Member since:2006-03-12
"Actually, it's not up to ATI anymore to provide code, though they will still provide binary drivers. It's up to OSS coders to take those specs and really shine"
I hate the word actually. AMD do not have to do anything!? the fact that they are making good on their promises many including myself is a positive step.
I personally would like *greater co-operation* on a unified open-source driver. The "you open-source programmers work on your driver...we will work on our binary one", is not really positive...
...its just more positive than those who write the open source drivers working without specifications.
Member since:2006-12-28
I personally would like *greater co-operation* on a unified open-source driver.
So would I but for the moment, this is a good first step.
Who knows? If the OSS community starts a good Linux driver project, they may get ATI engineers helping out with any questions and maybe even code.
I have the feeling that the current proprietary driver codebase is ment to be replaced by a strong opensource community release in the future. Once most of the work is done, all that remains is tweaking to get a high performance and stable 3d driver. I would think that ATI would very much want to be involved with that.
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2005-08-11
"The final judgement will certainly be the code that AMD releases and what the community can do with it."
Actually, it's not up to ATI anymore to provide code, though they will still provide binary drivers. It's up to OSS coders to take those specs and really shine