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

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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Re:Imaginary? Really?

[Bert64]

Only in the case of drivers for hardware, it benefits the hardware maker for those drivers to be as widely available as possible... They can pay to have drivers developed whereby the developers get paid for their time worked, and the result is useful drivers that encourage sales of the hardware.

Hardware is certainly not imaginary, it is perfectly reasonable to sell that, and actual effort has to go into each and every unit sold.