It was my understanding AMD released their driver source code in March for 3.4 kernel update.
Best regards, Rick C. Hodgin -------- Original Message -------- From: [email protected] Sent: Fri, Jun 8, 2012 09:21 AM To: User help and discussion <[email protected]> CC: Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] What would make you become an associate member? >> What can I do to help Trisquel? If there's a way I can help get the >> recently released AMD open-source drivers working ... point me in the >> right direction and I'll go for it. > >These drivers (as they have been doing for years) require nonfree >microcode which is sourceless and (for modern cards) has a license >forbidding reverse engineering. There is completely no AMD cooperation >on replacing it. I don't expect this to be easy to fix (although >Nouveau developers probably did similar tasks for different >architectures). > >(My reason for not being a member is not using PayPal, this can change. >I don't contribute to Trisquel in programming ways, since I don't >experience easier bugs and have several other projects I spend not >enough time on.)
