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Public Discussions => Off Topic discussions => Topic started by: miturbide on 2012.03.21, 16:50:19

Title: AMD Releases Open-Source Radeon HD 7000 Driver
Post by: miturbide on 2012.03.21, 16:50:19
Reference from slashdot.org

An anonymous reader writes "AMD has publicly released the open-source code to the Radeon HD 7000 series (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA3NDE) 'Southern Islands' graphics cards for Linux users. This allows users of AMD's latest-generation of Radeon graphics cards to use the open-source Linux driver rather than Catalyst, plus there's also early support for AMD's next-generation Fusion APUs."

Also

"This code drop comes just one day after Intel began publishing its Haswell graphics code (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA3MzQ)."
Title: Re: AMD Releases Open-Source Radeon HD 7000 Driver
Post by: jdeb on 2012.03.23, 03:24:52
Quote from: miturbide on 2012.03.21, 16:50:19
Reference from slashdot.org

An anonymous reader writes "AMD has publicly released the open-source code to the Radeon HD 7000 series (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA3NDE) 'Southern Islands' graphics cards for Linux users. This allows users of AMD's latest-generation of Radeon graphics cards to use the open-source Linux driver rather than Catalyst, plus there's also early support for AMD's next-generation Fusion APUs."

Also

"This code drop comes just one day after Intel began publishing its Haswell graphics code (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA3MzQ)."


That's good news I suppose... as we are still at ATI X800 series :-[