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.