AMD Puts Out Radeon HD 6000 Open-Source Driver 138
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from the incremental-promise-fulfillment dept.
from the incremental-promise-fulfillment dept.
An anonymous reader writes "AMD has just released their open-source driver for the Radeon HD 6000 series graphics cards (sans the Cayman GPUs) with KMS, 2D, and 3D acceleration."
Put your money where your mouth is (Score:5, Insightful)
For all the Slashdot posters who keep begging for Linux support and talking about how big companies constantly ignore you, this is your chance.
Buy AMD. Be vocal that the reason you're buying an AMD video card is because of their driver. Vote with your wallet.
(On the CPU front, you can make an equal case for Intel supporting open source).
VAAPI Acceleration? (Score:5, Insightful)
I didn't see any mention of VAAPI [wikipedia.org] or XvBA [wikipedia.org] Acceleration for playing media? How about OpenCL [wikipedia.org] support?
Granted the HD 6000 [amd.com] looks more like a gamers card than something you'd stick in a home theater pc, but I'd think that OpenCL support would interest quite a few people doing massive number crunching. Especially since there's even PyOpenCL [python.org] available.
Re:Put your money where your mouth is (Score:4, Insightful)
Maybe you should stop running the Pre-Alpha version of RHEL and move up to a distribution intended for end users if you don't want to solve problems and do Alpha testing for Redhat.
Re:AMD has taken ATI to a new level (Score:4, Insightful)
Come back when we have hardware acceleration. Linux video playback needs CPU horse power. Even the iphone/ipod touch handles h.264 video better than linux. Whether we like it or not, that's the defacto codec these days and decoding is built into just about every device and video card. And yet, linux still cannot use them. Windows had it in '06.