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[News] More AMD/ATI Documentation Coming Shortly to Encroutage Development

  • Subject: [News] More AMD/ATI Documentation Coming Shortly to Encroutage Development
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:09:01 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Freelance
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
ATI R200 Documentation Coming Too

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| John doesn't believe these R200 documents will be of any use to the 
| xf86-video-ati developers for improving the Radeon 8500 to 9250 open-source 
| support, but that it will help assist new open-source developers in beginning 
| to understand graphics programming. The Radeon 8500 programming guide 
| consists of what has been described as a "pretty good introductory guide for 
| new driver dev[eloper]s" and "if it allows a few more people to become active 
| developers that can make a big difference."       
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjM5NA

NVIDIA will be missing out. AMD will receive bugs reports, contributions,
suggestions, addons, etc. Development is a two-way process.


Related:

AMD 2007 Year In Review

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| AMD does realize that everything isn't perfect and going into 2008, they are 
| working on more features and changes for their Linux driver as well as 
| bringing on additional staff. Need we say that 2008 should be another very 
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| interesting year for AMD and Linux?   
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=952&num=1


Future AMD GPUs To Be More Open-Source Friendly?

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| AMD is on the heels of releasing the next set of GPU programming 
| documentation to aide in the development of the open-source R500/600 drivers 
| (xf86-video-ati and xf86-video-radeonhd). It's already been discussed what 
| this NDA-free documentation release will have, but one of the questions that 
| have repeatedly come up is if/when AMD will release information on 
| accelerated video playback. AMD's John Bridgman has now stated what they plan 
| to release in the video realm as well as a new requirement for their future 
| graphics processors: being open-source friendly while avoiding DRM.       
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=955&num=1


AMD Releases Additional R600 GPU Programming Documentation

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| In the second NDA-free documentation dump, AMD has just released programming 
| data on the M76 and RS690 graphics processors. While the RadeonHD developers 
| have already had these documents, this information will help the free 
| software community in understanding the internal workings of AMD's graphics 
| processors.    
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=960&num=1


Could AMD move open desktop Linux market?

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| AMD’s recent move to fully support open source graphics could be the best 
| news desktop Linux has had in a long time. 
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1427


AMD Releases R300 3D Register Guide

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| Today's R300 documentation release is just 99 pages long but covers registers 
| for color buffer, fog, geometry assembly, graphics backend, rasterization, 
| clipping, setup unit, texture, fragment shaders, vertex, and Z-Buffer. This 
| is now the fourth open-source documentation dump (and sixth document) from 
| AMD, since announcing their open-source strategy last year. Aside from the 
| R500 3D guide, the previous documents had covered the basic register 
| information for the R500/600 mobile and desktop chipsets (RV630/M56 and 
| M76/RS690).       
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_r300_guide&num=1

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