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AMD Releases Open-Source Radeon HD 7000 Driver

Posted by Soulskill on from the still-waiting-on-the-open-source-sand-wedge dept.

An anonymous reader writes "AMD has publicly released the open-source code to the Radeon HD 7000 series 'Southern Islands' graphics cards for Linux users. This allows users of AMD's latest-generation of Radeon graphics cards to use the open-source Linux driver rather than Catalyst, plus there's also early support for AMD's next-generation Fusion APUs."

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  1. Llano: 3.3? by whoever57 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would be much more interested to know if Llano is fully supported in 3.3 kernel. With 3.2, if KMS is enabled, the screen blanks as soon as the radeon module is loaded (even before X starts).

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  2. Re:They still have a non-free dependency; go /w In by dmitrygr · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Don't get too excited. Some intel chips use PowerVR, which has no OSS driver (from intel as well as from anyone else) see here

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  3. Re:AMD needs to focus on OS by Asic+Eng · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Isn't that problem solved by the bumblebee project?