Posted on Saturday, November 17 2007 @ 5:06 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Back on September 6th of this year AMD shocked the open-source
community by committing to the development of a new open-source display
driver (this driver is now known as RadeonHD) and that they would be
providing specifications to the development community. A week later,
they set precedence by not only releasing the documentation to the
developers but to the everyone! Their first batch of documentation
covered the basics for the RV630 and M56 GPUs and was released freely to
the public without any Non-Disclosure Agreement! However, they still
have much more GPU documentation that has yet to be released. Some
simply believe AMD is doing this as a publicity stunt, but today we have
new details to share as they prepare for their next GPU documentation
release.
Read more
at Phoronix.
