Hi Mampir,
I agree free software can perform as fast as prop software, but I was talking
about the 3d performance in particular, because non-free drivers are
obviously 100% compatible with the hardware they enable and 'free' drivers
have to be reverse engineered, isn't that right?
Glxgears maxing out my cpu makes sense. But the 'radeondriver' shows up in my
package manager, so doesn't that mean that it's free software? Because I have
no non-free repositories enabled.
I read that discussion on phoronix and that employee seems to say that you
can hardly call the blob non-free code, because it is firmware and it is
never executed by the cpu. Moreover, because of competition between hardware
manufacturers, they strictly apply DRM to the microcode, which the FSF is
clearly campaigning against (at least in music, video and the like). Does
this mean that in order to get 3d acceleration on free distributions, the
free software community has to: 1) convince these hardware vendors to give up
DRM, or 2) develop their own 3d hardware?? And does this also apply for the
Intel integrated graphics, because I read somewhere that getting 3D to work
with Intel is easier somehow.
Thanks for the info!
Gnoob
Greets,
Gnoob
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