http://lwn.net/Articles/248227/ -
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A quick report from the kernel summit: AMD's representative at the
summit has announced that the company has made a decision to enable
the development of open source drivers for all of its (ATI) graphics
processors from the R500 going forward. There will be specifications
available and a skeleton driver as well; a free 2D driver is
anticipated by the end of the year. The rest will have to be written;
freeing of the existing binary-only driver is not in the cards, and
"that is better for everybody." Things are looking good on this front.
More in the kernel summit report to come.
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Read the comments in the link - they are worth reading...
-jf
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In the meantime, here is your PSA:
"It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help."
-- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
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