AMD Releases 3D Programming Documentation

Posted by kdawson on Saturday February 23, 2008 @12:20PM from the fosdem-fossdoc dept.

Michael Larabel writes "With the Free Open Source Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) starting today, where John Bridgman of AMD will be addressing the X.Org developers, AMD has this morning released their 3D programming documentation. This information covers not only the recent R500 series, but goes back in detail to the R300/400 series. This is another one of AMD's open source documentation offerings, which they had started doing at the X Developer Summit 2007 with releasing 900 pages of basic documentation. Phoronix has a detailed analysis of what is being offered with today's information as well as information on sample code being released soon. This information will allow open source 3D/OpenGL work to get underway with ATI's newer graphics cards."

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Re:Way to go AMD by Anonymous Coward · 2008-02-23 13:21 · Score: -1, Troll

Well, they get free development from eager developers and more respect from the OSS community. With AMD sort of floundering with an uncompetitive mainstream lineup across the board - CPUs and video cards - I have to wonder if they are just grasping at any hold they can get. Which is not necessarily a bad thing for us. Who cares about motives if it results in better 3D support for *nix.