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Open-Source 2D, 3D Drivers For ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series

Posted by Soulskill on from the following-through dept.

An anonymous reader writes "AMD has now rolled out open-source 2D and 3D drivers for their ATI Radeon HD 5000 series graphics processors. As described at length over at Phoronix, it's taken nearly a year to complete but there is now public code released that enables 2D, 3D, and video hardware-acceleration for this latest generation of ATI GPUs. For now this code is intended for developers and enthusiasts but with time it will make its way into stable Linux distribution updates. AMD's open-source developers are also beginning to work on ATI Radeon HD 6000 series support, which is hardware not to be released until late in the year."

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  1. Mac OS X by SimonTheSoundMan · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Open source drivers for OS X? Doubt it.

    1. Re:Mac OS X by node+3 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Why? There are already 5000 series drivers in Mac OS X. And it's quite likely that the open source drivers will not be as capable or high performance as the proprietary drivers.

      If you still really want open source drivers for some reason, though, these can be used to create drivers for OS X.