phoronix.com— "In the coming months AMD also plans to accelerate efforts to address the needs of the open source community as well." Does that mean they are opening up the source code to their Linux driver?
Sep 5, 2007View in Crawl 4
What we need is an Open Standard Driver for devices where manufacturers can adhere too. Imagine if we have this, that means my Linux Cellphone can connect to any printer and print maybe my grocery orders, or flight ticket. I can download pictures from my digital camera to my Linux cellphone, or Linux computer, or Linux PDA. Let's form an Open Standard Organization!Here we set the Open Document Format (which is already existing), Open Driver Specification for devices, etc. I'm tired of International Standards (ISO, IEEE, ...) that are manipulated by private corporations (like what's happening with Open Document and M$). Plus you have to pay royalty at times to the owner of the standard. These should be free.
I will believe if when I see it on an ATI card under linux. They have issued many press statements promising vague things to come and have no credibility. There is no detail here, just useless speculation.
They haven't said anything about open sourcing their driver, they just said they are planning on addressing the need of the open source community. That probably translates to, where going to release a driver that is actually somewhat usable (and maybe some specs under a NDA). This is also the 2nd time its happened (with the exact same topic) I wish people would stop making up complete rubbish and putting it on Digg.
anyone else think that this may have more to do with dell, hp and other pc manufacturers shipping Linux now than any amount of fan boys screaming.don't get me wrong im immensely happy that i will be able to use compiz properly next month when they release this awesome new binary blob that apparently works properly and look forward to the open source version coming installed by default in any distribution i care to use.
Closed AccountSep 5, 2007
i don't care if the driver is binary or open source, just make aiglx work on my x700the xorg radeon driver is so slowww
planktonxSep 5, 2007
What we need is an Open Standard Driver for devices where manufacturers can adhere too. Imagine if we have this, that means my Linux Cellphone can connect to any printer and print maybe my grocery orders, or flight ticket. I can download pictures from my digital camera to my Linux cellphone, or Linux computer, or Linux PDA. Let's form an Open Standard Organization!Here we set the Open Document Format (which is already existing), Open Driver Specification for devices, etc. I'm tired of International Standards (ISO, IEEE, ...) that are manipulated by private corporations (like what's happening with Open Document and M$). Plus you have to pay royalty at times to the owner of the standard. These should be free.
jcainoSep 6, 2007
as a linux user with radeon graphics in my desktop and laptop, i'm extremely excited by what this could mean...
reventlovSep 6, 2007
I will believe if when I see it on an ATI card under linux. They have issued many press statements promising vague things to come and have no credibility. There is no detail here, just useless speculation.
Closed AccountSep 6, 2007
They haven't said anything about open sourcing their driver, they just said they are planning on addressing the need of the open source community. That probably translates to, where going to release a driver that is actually somewhat usable (and maybe some specs under a NDA). This is also the 2nd time its happened (with the exact same topic) I wish people would stop making up complete rubbish and putting it on Digg.
foreplaySep 6, 2007
anyone else think that this may have more to do with dell, hp and other pc manufacturers shipping Linux now than any amount of fan boys screaming.don't get me wrong im immensely happy that i will be able to use compiz properly next month when they release this awesome new binary blob that apparently works properly and look forward to the open source version coming installed by default in any distribution i care to use.