AMD Releases Open-Source Driver Support For Next-Gen Polaris GPUs (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 24, 2016 @12:42AM from the out-the-gate-already-this-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes: For the first time ever, AMD has provided open-source support for next-generation discrete GPUs ahead of the product's launch. AMD developers published initial open-source Linux driver support for Polaris GPUs with the addition adding over sixty-seven thousand lines of code to the Linux kernel. AMD Polaris graphics cards are expected this summer while AMD released the open-source driver support in advance for preparing their new Linux hybrid driver that relies upon the open-source AMDGPU kernel driver.

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Re: Why add this to the kernel? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-03-24 01:21 · Score: 2, Funny

Yup. Also, while Linux folks were screaming about getting the graphics frame buffer into the kernel to make it more competitive with Windows for games, Windows was quietly doing the opposite. And now we have the year of the Linux desktop, of course.