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
What Will AMD Open Up Next?
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjM0OQ
RadeonHD Update @ FOSDEM 2008
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| Following John Bridgman's talk at FOSDEM, Egbert Eich, who is one of the
| Novell developers working on the RadeonHD driver, had talked about the status
| of the RadeonHD driver.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjM1MA
Yesterday:
AMD Releases 3D Programming Documentation
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| The 3D programming documentation today is 300 pages and is made up of a
| programming guide and register specifications. Among the areas covered in
| this 3D guide are the command processor, vertex shaders, fragment shaders,
| Hyper-Z, and the various 3D registers. Editor's Note: In the hours leading up
| to this public documentation drop, we've been told that tcore will now not be
| available for immediate download with this 3D programming documentation. We
| would expect tcore to be available very soon, if it's not already available
| for you from the download server.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_tcore_release&num=1
Related:
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 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
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
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