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AMD Releases Register Specs For R5xx And R6xx

Posted by Zonk on from the have-fun-storming-the-castle dept.

ianare writes "AMD has recently released register specifications for the ATI Radeon R5xx and R6xx graphic devices. This will (theoretically) allow the OSS community to develop drivers, given time. In fact, engineers from Novell have released a first alpha quality Open Source driver which currently supports initial mode settings. Although current work is focused on 2D, rather than 3D acceleration, this type of information sharing could conceivably lead to an OSS 3D driver."

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  1. glxGears needs to be updated! by siDDis · · Score: 3, Funny

    With shader 4.0 benchmarking!

    1. Re:glxGears needs to be updated! by moosesocks · · Score: 2, Funny

      He's exactly correct.

      Isn't it written into the GL Spec that all OpenGL benchmarks must include some sort of tea kettle?

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  2. Re:Hurrah by whichpaul · · Score: 5, Funny

    OSS 3D driver, great! Now we just need some games play.

  3. Re:Secret codes by ThirdPrize · · Score: 2, Funny

    They are from the next series of "Lost".

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  4. Zonk doesn't post dupes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    He just doesn't want us to forget important news like this! You prick!

  5. Oh, ATi... by Provocateur · · Score: 2, Funny

    I no longer HATi you!

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