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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. 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