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AMD Releases Open-Source R600/700 3D Code
Michael writes "AMD has just released code that will allow for open-source 3D acceleration on their ATI R600 and R700 graphics cards, including all of their newest Radeon HD 4xxx products. This code consists of a demo program that feeds the commands to the hardware, updates to their RadeonHD driver, and a Direct Rendering Manager update. With this code comes working 2D EXA acceleration support for these newer ATI graphics processors as well as basic X-Video support. AMD will be releasing sanitized documentation for these new ATI GPUs in the coming weeks. Phoronix has an article detailing what's all encompassed by today's code drop as well as the activities that led to this open-source code coming about for release."
I don't think it's very likely to come about with new versions of Windows requiring signed drivers, unfortunately.
Unless you feel like writing a wrapper for Windows to allow it to load drivers written and compiled using the Linux binary driver framework.
Oh wait... there is no standard Linux driver framework, they're just kernel modules, and are only supposed to be loaded into the specific kernel build the modules were compiled to go with.. hrm.
But we have been innundated with Microsoft Fanbois thus the question. Yes, I acknowledge I'm an OSS Fanboi.
Semi-automatic amateur armchair Australian philosopher; conjecture ready at any moment...
We all joke about his billions of dollars, but to see them put to use attempting to vaccinate an entire continent, I gotta tell ya that is a pretty damned impressive thing to do.
Yeah, but what they don't tell you is that the vaccinations create genetic mutations which cause the patient to be unquestioningly obedient to Microsoft.
... and then they built the supercollider.
We all joke about his billions of dollars, but to see them put to use attempting to vaccinate an entire continent, I gotta tell ya that is a pretty damned impressive thing to do.
Please read the following article before believing for one fucking second that Bill Gates is anything other than a wannabe Dr. Evil:
To be fair, BillyG might be nothing more than a hand puppet. There's no way to tell from here.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"