Future AMD GPUs To Be More 'Open-Source Friendly'

skaroo writes "Phoronix is reporting that future AMD GPUs will be more open-source friendly. After AMD started releasing their GPG specifications to the open-source community, questions arose whether there would be information covering the Unified Video Decoder (UVD) found on the Radeon HD 2000 graphics cards. The UVD information is needed in order for hardware-accelerated video playback, but it likely cannot be opened due to DRM. However, an AMD representative said that moving to a modular UVD design is a requirement for future GPUs and that they will be more open-source friendly. They will also be opening the video acceleration information for their earlier graphics cards."

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Re:I remember a time...

[Bloater]

We don't have free market capitalism in the western world. Most markets are tightly controlled and made mostly worthless - hence all our technological development hasn't made most of us rich. What happens to us these days doesn't happen in free markets thus the markets are not free.

Re:I remember a time...

[dh003i]

Libertarianism: the opposition to any initiation of aggression; e.g., opposition to robbery, theft, murder, rape under any and all conditions. But apparently, you don't believe in silly things like that, and think it's fine to use the threat of violence to steal from people for things that you think are important.