Posted on Wednesday, February 27 2008 @ 4:55 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Starting off the X.Org talks at FOSDEM 2008 was AMD's John
Bridgman, who has been leading the AMD GPG open-source efforts. John had
talked briefly about the history of their open-source efforts for the
R500+ series and the evolution of AMD GPU hardware. Among the interesting
comments made were that TexturedVideo/X-Video support for the R500/600 may
be coming quite soon, DRM and Mesa work forthcoming, open-source multi-GPU
CrossFire support is on the road-map, and they will be re-releasing R200
programming documents. The RV620 and RV635 documentation is expected in
the near future.
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