Posted on Thursday, March 20 2008 @ 5:06 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
For Linux distribution vendors, right now is proving to be an
awkward time for them as they decide which ATI driver will ship as the
default choice in their spring distribution refresh. The problem used to
be whether to ship a binary-only driver in the distribution in order to
provide "out of the box" support for all available graphics
hardware, but on the ATI/AMD side the software distributors are now
facing the challenge of which open-source driver they should call the de
facto standard. In this article we are briefly looking at the matter of
the xf86-video-ati vs. xf86-video-radeonhd drivers, the highly political
issue of AtomBIOS, and what some of the popular Linux distributions are
deciding to use this spring.
Read more
at Phoronix.
