AMD Radeon 8000 Series Released. What is the state of things for opensource?

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Originally Posted by curaga

That's pretty horrible, seeing as the rebadges span the entire range this time.

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Patience, grasshopper ;)

Thanks for the information, but seriously, what is the rationale behind the first number if it doesn't describe anything anymore? Maybe it would be better to use sha1 over the pciid instead of a misleading number.

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Originally Posted by entropy

So it turns out it wasn't that offtopic. :D :/

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Not quite ;) See:

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Originally Posted by bridgman

The GPUs announced so far are not the "next generation" hardware we have been talking about.

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incoming.... get in cover ;)

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Originally Posted by bridgman

The GPUs announced so far are not the "next generation" hardware we have been talking about.

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Thank you for the information.

Well, you're not the right one to blame.
In fact, I believe you don't like the naming as well but can't say so, ofc. :D