ATI R200 Documentation Coming Too
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| John doesn't believe these R200 documents will be of any use to the
| xf86-video-ati developers for improving the Radeon 8500 to 9250 open-source
| support, but that it will help assist new open-source developers in beginning
| to understand graphics programming. The Radeon 8500 programming guide
| consists of what has been described as a "pretty good introductory guide for
| new driver dev[eloper]s" and "if it allows a few more people to become active
| developers that can make a big difference."
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjM5NA
NVIDIA will be missing out. AMD will receive bugs reports, contributions,
suggestions, addons, etc. Development is a two-way process.
Related:
AMD 2007 Year In Review
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| AMD does realize that everything isn't perfect and going into 2008, they are
| working on more features and changes for their Linux driver as well as
| bringing on additional staff. Need we say that 2008 should be another very
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| interesting year for AMD and Linux?
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=952&num=1
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
AMD Releases Additional R600 GPU Programming Documentation
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| 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.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=960&num=1
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 Releases R300 3D Register Guide
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| Today's R300 documentation release is just 99 pages long but covers registers
| for color buffer, fog, geometry assembly, graphics backend, rasterization,
| clipping, setup unit, texture, fragment shaders, vertex, and Z-Buffer. This
| is now the fourth open-source documentation dump (and sixth document) from
| AMD, since announcing their open-source strategy last year. Aside from the
| R500 3D guide, the previous documents had covered the basic register
| information for the R500/600 mobile and desktop chipsets (RV630/M56 and
| M76/RS690).
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_r300_guide&num=1
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