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AMD to open up graphics specs

2007-09-05 18:19:51

[Posted September 5, 2007 by corbet]

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.