Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

[News] AMD Has Linux Beta Program

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

What Goes On Within AMD's Linux Beta Program?

,----[ Quote ]
| This year NVIDIA has been following the "release early, release often" mantra 
| with it seeming like two weeks can't even go by without seeing a new Linux 
| driver -- whether it's a beta driver, an official driver update, or one of 
| their legacy drivers picking up a few fixes (at times they have even released 
| four drivers at once). On the opposite spectrum, AMD continues with monthly 
| Catalyst driver updates on both Linux and windows. Rather than a continual 
| stream of new public driver releases, AMD maintains a private beta program 
| for their Catalyst Linux driver. This private program is made up of AMD 
| developers, hardware vendors, users of different Linux distributions, other 
| Linux vendors, and end-users. Phoronix has been a part of this program for 
| years, but those testing this driver are under a strict Non-Disclosure 
| Agreement with AMD regarding pre-releases of their Linux software. Today, 
| however, AMD has decided to declassify some information pertaining to its 
| Linux Graphics Driver Beta Program.             
`----

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_beta_declassified&num=1


Recent:

Open-Source ATI R500 3D Milestone Reached!

,----[ Quote ]
| Coming just a day after AMD had opened up their production microcode from 
| their proprietary drivers for the R100 to R600 GPUs, a significant milestone 
| has been reached in the road to open-source 3D graphics capabilities for the 
| Radeon X1000 (R500) series. We now have hardware-accelerated glxgears!   
`----

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=r500_glxgears&num=1


Related:

AMD Releases Production Microcode For All Radeon GPUs

,----[ Quote ]
| In the next step towards open-source 3D support for the R500 and R600 GPUs 
| (Radeon X1000 and Radeon HD 2000/3000), AMD has just pushed its production 
| microcode into the Mesa/DRM git tree. This is the microcode found in the 
| fglrx driver and it covers the Radeon R100 to R600 product families.   
`----

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_microcode&num=1


Radeon vs. RadeonHD Drivers In H1'08

,----[ Quote ]
| On the other hand, the Radeon (xf86-video-ati) driver has been around for 
| years and its product support originates with the R100 (Radeon 7200) GPUs and 
| has been built up over time to support all Radeon (and FireGL) product 
| families. Portions of this driver have been written with specifications ATI 
| had released under Non-Disclosure Agreements for the R200 (Radeon 8500 - 
| 9250) while other areas had to be reverse-engineered.      
`----

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=radeon_vs_radeonhd&num=1


AMD Releases Additional R600 GPU Programming Documentation

,----[ Quote ]
| 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.    
`----

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=960&num=1


Could AMD move open desktop Linux market?

,----[ Quote ]
| AMD’s recent move to fully support open source graphics could be the best 
| news desktop Linux has had in a long time. 
`----

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1427


New Approach To ATI Linux Driver Installation

,----[ Quote ] 
| Starting next month with the Ubuntu packaging scripts for the ATI Linux 
| driver, the --autopkg and --installpkg arguments will be supported. When 
| using this new --autopkg argument, the Ubuntu packaging scripts will detect 
| the distribution version, install any build-time dependencies for that 
| distribution, builds the ATI Debian packages (the same as running --buildpkg 
| manually), installs DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) and libGL package 
| dependencies, and then finally installs the ATI driver packages.       
`----

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=976&num=1


AMD Launches Open GPU Website

,----[ Quote ]
| AMD has today launched their new open GPU documentation website for 
| register-level documents covering their ATI Radeon products. In addition, 
| they are now providing an email address for any open-source developers who 
| may have questions concerning these documents.   
`----

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjMyOQ


Future AMD GPUs To Be More Open-Source Friendly?

,----[ Quote ]
| 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.       
`----

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=955&num=1


AMD Releases Additional R600 GPU Programming Documentation

,----[ Quote ]
| 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.    
`----

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=960&num=1
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEARECAAYFAkm3HowACgkQU4xAY3RXLo696QCgpLUaMHhMw2rICfLA7Xw3w/Xg
YdAAoJoDX13nxCVajbCqo6uiQPJ64PVB
=hXhf
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index