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What Goes On Within AMD's Linux Beta Program?
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| This year NVIDIA has been following the "release early, release often" mantra
| with it seeming like two weeks can't even go by without seeing a new Linux
| driver -- whether it's a beta driver, an official driver update, or one of
| their legacy drivers picking up a few fixes (at times they have even released
| four drivers at once). On the opposite spectrum, AMD continues with monthly
| Catalyst driver updates on both Linux and windows. Rather than a continual
| stream of new public driver releases, AMD maintains a private beta program
| for their Catalyst Linux driver. This private program is made up of AMD
| developers, hardware vendors, users of different Linux distributions, other
| Linux vendors, and end-users. Phoronix has been a part of this program for
| years, but those testing this driver are under a strict Non-Disclosure
| Agreement with AMD regarding pre-releases of their Linux software. Today,
| however, AMD has decided to declassify some information pertaining to its
| Linux Graphics Driver Beta Program.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_beta_declassified&num=1
Recent:
Open-Source ATI R500 3D Milestone Reached!
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| Coming just a day after AMD had opened up their production microcode from
| their proprietary drivers for the R100 to R600 GPUs, a significant milestone
| has been reached in the road to open-source 3D graphics capabilities for the
| Radeon X1000 (R500) series. We now have hardware-accelerated glxgears!
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=r500_glxgears&num=1
Related:
AMD Releases Production Microcode For All Radeon GPUs
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| In the next step towards open-source 3D support for the R500 and R600 GPUs
| (Radeon X1000 and Radeon HD 2000/3000), AMD has just pushed its production
| microcode into the Mesa/DRM git tree. This is the microcode found in the
| fglrx driver and it covers the Radeon R100 to R600 product families.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_microcode&num=1
Radeon vs. RadeonHD Drivers In H1'08
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| On the other hand, the Radeon (xf86-video-ati) driver has been around for
| years and its product support originates with the R100 (Radeon 7200) GPUs and
| has been built up over time to support all Radeon (and FireGL) product
| families. Portions of this driver have been written with specifications ATI
| had released under Non-Disclosure Agreements for the R200 (Radeon 8500 -
| 9250) while other areas had to be reverse-engineered.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=radeon_vs_radeonhd&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
New Approach To ATI Linux Driver Installation
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| Starting next month with the Ubuntu packaging scripts for the ATI Linux
| driver, the --autopkg and --installpkg arguments will be supported. When
| using this new --autopkg argument, the Ubuntu packaging scripts will detect
| the distribution version, install any build-time dependencies for that
| distribution, builds the ATI Debian packages (the same as running --buildpkg
| manually), installs DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) and libGL package
| dependencies, and then finally installs the ATI driver packages.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=976&num=1
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
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
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