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Fwd: AMD to open up graphics specs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Wed Sep 5 14:08:45 2007
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 14:08:07 -0400
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FYI: AMD is going to publish the specs on their newer processors.
In the short term this will not matter to us since we've got a
framework for integrating the proprietary driver. In the longer
term, however, it may mean that the more mainstream Dell systems will
begin to work with less tinkering.
I think that the ATI Radeon X1300 that we're currently buying is an
R400 processor, rather than an R500, but I might be mistaken.
-Bill
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> From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@fedoraproject.org>
> Date: September 5, 2007 11:35:30 AM EDT
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> Subject: AMD to open up graphics specs
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>
> Hi
>
>
> Free software is winning. With the existing excellent support from
> Intel and the upcoming AMD support, Nvidia will be left as the odd
> ball.
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/248227/
>
> "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."
>
> Rahul
>
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