"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Open-Source Radeon Driver Improvements
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> | For those following the xf86-video-ati developments or use this
> open-source
> | Radeon driver for their graphics card, you may want to check out the
> latest
> | development code. Committed to its git branch today was a lot of new
> work
> | from Alex Deucher, Dennis Kasprzyk, David Airlie, Egbert Eich, and
> Corbin
> | Simpson.
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> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjY3NA
Perhaps, but I've had much better results using Linux+NVidia than I have
with ATI. Maybe things are changing but I think that too many Linux users
have struggled with ATI and I don't see them rushing back.
BTW... since you live in the future could you post tonights winning lottery
numbers when you get a chance.<g>
- ss
> Recent:
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> AMD Makes An Evolutionary Leap In Linux Support
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> | Tux being part of their licensed box design, forthcoming CrossFire
> support,
> | and other major features coming are major wins for the Linux community.
> For
> | those concerned that AMD is attempting to build back up its binary
> blockade,
> | don't worry as their open-source strategy will continue with the RV770.
> AMD
> | engineers are in the process of sanitizing the programming documentation
> for
> | this brand new GPU for public release in the coming weeks. We suspect
> the
> | xf86-video-ati and xf86-video-radeonhd developers will have the
> documentation
> | even sooner under NDA. In addition, the open-sourcing of KGrids and
> TCore
> | will be relevant and helpful for the 2D and 3D RV770 open-source
> support.
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> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_evolution&num=1
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>
> AMD teraflop processor is all about open-source
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> | The Stream SDK's Brook+ front-end is available as open source code.
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> http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2008/06/16/43935/amd-teraflop-processor-is-all-about-open-source.htm
> http://tinyurl.com/68qs26
>
>
> AMD Releases Stream SDK For Linux
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> | NVIDIA's competition for Stream computing is CUDA, which is the Compute
> | Unified Device Architecture, or CUDA for short. CUDA has been supported
> on
> | Linux now for some time and NVIDIA is in the process of bringing PhysX
> to
> | CUDA, for physics acceleration thanks to their acquisition of AGEIA.
> Intel's
> | competition is Ct, or C for Throughput Computing.
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> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_stream_released&num=1
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>
> AMD Stream SDK Coming To Linux Soon
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> | NVIDIA has long supported their CUDA (Compute Unified Device
> Architecture)
> | technology on Linux for allowing general-purpose code algorithms to be
> | executed on the graphics processor, while AMD and their Stream Computing
> | support has been absent on Linux. AMD has only been supporting their
> Stream
> | SDK on Windows XP, but this morning we have confirmation that the
> Software
> | Development Kit will be released for Linux in the coming days.
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> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjQ2Mw
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>
> ATI/AMD's Open-Source Plans
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> | Starting off the X.Org talks at FOSDEM 2008 was AMD's John Bridgman, who
> has
> | been leading the AMD GPG open-source efforts. John had talked briefly
> about
> | the history of their open-source efforts for the R500+ series and the
> | evolution of AMD GPU hardware. Among the interesting comments made were
> that
> | TexturedVideo/X-Video support for the R500/600 may be coming quite soon,
> DRM
> | and Mesa work forthcoming, open-source multi-GPU multi-GPU support is on
> the
> | road-map, and they will be re-releasing R200 programming documents. The
> RV620
> | and RV635 documentation is expected in the near future.
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> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fosdem_08_bridgman&num=1
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>
> 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
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>
> AMD Launches Open GPU Website
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> | 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.
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> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjMyOQ
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