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AMD Publishes Open-Source Radeon HD 8000 Series Driver

Posted by Soulskill on from the getting-out-ahead-of-the-game dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The hardware hasn't been released yet, but AMD has made available early open-source Linux GPU driver patches for supporting the future Radeon HD 8000 series graphics cards. At this time the Radeon HD 8800 'Oland' series is supported with the Mesa, DRM, X.Org, and kernel modifications. From the driver perspective, not many modifications are needed to build upon the Radeon HD 7000 series support."

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  1. Kudos to AMD for this, but... by ameline · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How is the stability and performance compared to their drivers on Windows for the same hardware?

    Functional parity (GL version and extensions) would also be nice.

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    Ian Ameline
  2. gearing up for steam on linux? by cod3r_ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe they are getting ready for an influx of gamers switching to linux?! That'd be cool

  3. Already supporting them by future+assassin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Built two htpc's in the last month one for work and one for home using A10-5800K and A8-5600K. My WD TV Live is pissing me off (Slow as molasses) so gonna build a simple htpc for my bedroom using an A4-5300K and another file server for the house with the same chip.

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    by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
  4. Re:Hey AMD Nice Job by jones_supa · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Steam arriving on Linux has caused them to make significant improvements to the fglrx drivers. For example in the latest Linux beta driver changelog there's "up to 300% performance improvement in Team Fortress 2".

  5. Re:Hey AMD Nice Job by jones_supa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Oh and by the way, if you didn't know, HL1 beta for Linux is out. :)