Few days ago AMD released the version 8.35.5. The biggest change is the completely new AMD Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition (amdcccle).
However, there is one major stepback regarding the PLF packaging of the new driver. The Control Center is only provided as a 32-bit binary and the source code is not provided. The previous ATI Control Panel was distributed with source code, so the x86_64 binary could be compiled while building the package. As the packaging policy with PLF non-free graphics driver packages has been to allow installing on x86_64 hosts without 32-bit medias configured, some changes has to be done. My proposals: a. Move Control Center to a different package, only existing in the i586 media, and 1) make the i586 ati package require it so that it will be automatically installed there, or 2) make it optional on i586 too or b. Drop the Control Center from x86_64 alltogether, or c. Allow the x86_64 package to require i586 ones, and 1) Move the actual driver to a different package (like "ati-driver"), so that advanced users without i586 medias can install it without Catalyst Control Center, or 2) Require x86_64 users to install i586 packages I think I'd favor a.1), but I hope other people would give their opinions or ideas as well. -- Anssi Hannula _______________________________________________ PLF-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/plf-discuss
