AMD Closes OSRC, Lays Off Several Linux Kernel Developers 94
From the H reporting on LinuxCon Europe comes news that several Linux kernel developers have been laid off by AMD as part of its workforce reduction. From the article: "OSRC staff primarily worked to develop the Linux support for AMD's server processors, but they also wrote code and extensions for related desktop and notebook CPUs – for example, they looked after the code to support CPU frequency scaling for the PowerNow and Turbo Core technologies. While working on the kernel's IOMMU and KVM support, one of AMD's former employees contributed to the development of the "IOMMU groups" feature that was integrated into Linux 3.6; this feature provides the basis for a new Linux 3.6 technology that allows a host's PCIe devices to be passed through to virtual machines and can also be used with Intel CPUs."
Looks like the group was doing interesting research on hypervisors, lockless data structures, and multi-core synchronization primitives among other things. The Open Source Radeon driver developers are not affected by this at least.
Re:I guess they don't want me to buy their product (Score:5, Informative)
This has nothing to do with graphics drivers at all, those were completely unaffected. It might impact implementation of some new server features on Linux, but it is strictly about CPU and related features, not APU or GPU stuff.
Re:And now (Score:2, Informative)
Run this as root, to turn the fan speed and GPU power to low:
echo low > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile
Further details here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI#With_KMS_enabled
Re:As an AMD shareholder... (Score:5, Informative)
You really should care more about their stock which is 25% of their high.
I'm guessing you mean their 52-week high? They've had a stock price of over 40 both in 2000 and 2006, since Intel introduced their Core micro-architecture they've lost over 95% of their value.
Re:Not sure I understand... (Score:5, Informative)
That is allegations floating around that the Intel compiler puts checks in the binaries that will only turn on MMX and other advanced bits when running on a Genuine Intel
Its not just allegation...
Due the the FTC ruling against Intel, its still not too late to get reimbursed by Intel if you purchased Intels compiler. [compilerre...rogram.com] Only a few more months left on that.