AMD/ATI opening specs

[der.hans]

Am 05. Sep, 2007 schwätzte Darrin Chandler so:

> On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 01:02:52PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
>> AMD has announced it will be making specifications available for
>> developing Free Software drivers for new ATI cards.
>>
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/248227/
>
> This seems promising!

Yes, and follow-up today makes it look even better.

http://www.newsforge.net/feature/119049

The licensing choices brings up some probs for *BSD, but if the specs are
available the GPL parts can be re-implemented. They'll also give code that
can be studied and used to test against.

ciao,

der.hans
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