Re: AMD and free and open source software

2016-08-31 Thread Michel Dänzer
On 01/09/16 11:25 AM, Bridgman, John wrote: > One suggestion that was made recently was for AMD to supply packages > containing only HW microcode images for AMD GPUs... The microcode images for AMD GPUs have already been split out into a separate firmware-amd-graphics package in Debian sid (and

RE: AMD and free and open source software

2016-08-31 Thread Bridgman, John
their hardware designs. Thanks, John >-Original Message- >From: amd-gfx [mailto:amd-gfx-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf >Of Huang Rui >Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 10:15 PM >To: Frederique >Cc: amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org >Subject: Re: AMD and free and open

RE: AMD and free and open source software

2016-08-31 Thread Bridgman, John
rederique >Cc: amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org >Subject: RE: AMD and free and open source software > >Right... the microcode is part of the HW design; some vendors build the >microcode images into the chip, while others have the BIOS or driver load >them at start-up. > >The industry is gene

Re: AMD and free and open source software

2016-08-31 Thread Huang Rui
We don't have the plan to open up firmware source. Thanks, Rui On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 04:16:59AM +0800, Frederique wrote: > Dear Huang Rui, > > I recently swapped my NVIDIA Geforce 980 Ti for an AMD R9 Fury because > of the devoted efforts that are being made towards a free and open > source