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AMD Ports Open-Source Linux GPU Driver To Windows

Posted by timothy on from the good-place-for-them dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An AMD engineer has inadvertently revealed that their Windows Embedded graphics driver is ported from the open-source Linux driver. AMD China last year began porting the open-source Radeon Linux kernel driver to Windows Embedded Compact 7, rather than using their Windows Catalyst driver. The resulting WEC7 driver for Radeon GPUs is proprietary, but that's allowed per the MIT license that the ATI-AMD Linux driver code is provided under."

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  1. WOW, LOL, WUT? by Thud457 · · Score: 0, Troll

    so it's official, the FOSS drivers are better than the proprietary drivers? (more likely it's that the proprietary drivers are just worse than the FOSS drivers...)

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    the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff