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AMD Open Sources the AMD Performance Library
bluephone writes "Today AMD announced that they're now opening the source to the AMD Performance Library (APL) under the Apache license. The newly opened code is now hosted at SourceForge (the corporate overlord of Slashdot) under its new name, Framewave. Phoronix says, "The AMD Performance Library / Framewave covers a multitude of operations from simple math operations to media processing and optimizations for multi-core environments." No word as to if it does your laundry. The SourceForge page says that while Framewave is 'sponsored' by AMD, it is "very much an open-source venture. While AMD will continue to participate in and contribute to the project, third-party developers are welcome and encouraged to implement all or part of the code base and/or to create derivative works." Being Apache licensed, it's quite open, so this doesn't seem to be mere lip service."
AMD processor drivers are integral to both the support and performance of AMD processors. At least AMD does not hide their micro-instruction patches, like Intel Does.
"intel firmware patches the P4 micro instruction rom!" And VIA Centar C7 does also.
Would you rather they withhold the bugs? Or have you pay theough the nose to replace the chips?
On Intel boxes, I am not to carefull about the CPU drivers, but I had a Athlon w/ AGP, and the speed of video doubled after I installed something called 'AGP Miniport driver" ! Yes! Thanks AMD! Keep those tiny patches coming!
You dont want the latest and greatest? Ok.
well this is all OT but its not even careful code analysis, microsoft java was just blatent copy+paste, shame on sun for not going for the kill!
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