Testing Out AMD's DRI2 Driver Stack

news · May 13, 2009

At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your

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Title: Testing Out AMD's DRI2 Driver Stack ( -at -) Phoronix

Summary: "For as long as I can recall, ATI/AMD video cards have

typically had decent support in Linux. It's not hard to pick out points

in time where drivers were slow to come (R300 sticks out in my mind),

but that was not due to the lack of effort by the open-source community

as it was the difficulty reverse engineering a chip with no

documentation. Intel seems to be the one getting most of the press these

days regarding their open-source graphics support, but AMD is putting

forth its own notable effort as well. They have multiple full time

employees working on open-source support and have released

specifications and programming documentation for their entire range of

chips. The past few months have seen a flurry of activity in graphics

related development, and a fair amount of this is centered around AMD

hardware."

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