Google & Open-Source ATI/NVIDIA Drivers
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| Will Google ultimately have any influence in open-sourcing the ATI
| and NVIDIA binary blobs? Or will they be further embracing projects
| like Nouveau and the R500 reverse engineering? No further action on
| Linux graphics drivers / proprietary drivers was taken at the Linux
| Foundation Collaboration Summit or during the Desktop Architects
| Meeting 4 (DAM-4).
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http://www.phoronix.com/?page=news_item&px=NTg0MA
Recent:
Preliminary opensource driver for the ATI R500-based cards
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| The released code is definitely not yet ready for the normal users,
| but it's the big step ahead nevertheless. Especially having in mind
| how ATI (now owned by AMD) has not provided specifications of their
| hardware to the open source community.
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http://www.linuxinsight.com/preliminary-opensource-driver-for-the-ati-r500-based-cards.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-June/025506.html
ATI Committed To Fixing Its OSS Problems
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| Chris Blizzard blogged from the Red Hat summit that an ATI
| marketing spokesman said, from the stage, that ATI knows it
| has a problem with open source and is committed to fixing it.
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http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/10/1424224&from=rss
ATI Has Open-Source Drivers Too
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| Being published on Saturday at Phoronix will be an article entitled
| ATI Has Open-Source Drivers Too, which will go over a few things
| with the workings going on for the open-source ATI Linux driver.
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http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=193
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