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AMD Releases Open Source Fusion Driver

Posted by kdawson on from the knock-yourselves-out dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday AMD released open source Linux driver support for their Fusion APUs, primarily for the first Ontario processor. As detailed on Phoronix, this includes support for kernel mode-setting, 2D acceleration, and 3D acceleration via both Mesa and Gallium3D graphics drivers."

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  1. Re:When AMD turns to 28nm production... by ifiwereasculptor · · Score: 4, Funny

    And you think Apple customers are that worried about price?

  2. Ontario Processor? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I went to buy an Ontario processor, but cheaped out -- I ended up with a Quebec processor. Now, I can't understand a thing it says, it never seems to do anything, and I keep having to give it money!

    1. Re:Ontario Processor? by jjohnson · · Score: 2, Funny

      Also, it periodically runs a system-wide poll to separate and form its own machine that stays in the same case, draws from the same power supply, and uses all the same resources :)

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      Anyone who loves or hates any language, platform, or manufacturer, doesn't know what they're talking about.
  3. Ontario ones are better then the cheap china ones by Joe+The+Dragon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ontario ones are better then the cheap china ones.