Catalyst 10.1 "faster 2D"?

[RealNC]

According to this:

http://www.behardware.com/news/10636...their-way.html

Catalyst 10.1 will provide "Improvement of 2D performance in Linux".

One thing that jumps out of this though, is:

"AMD has supplied us with a document giving information"

How come Phoronix doesn't get such "documents"?

[a12ctic]

Ubuntu 9.10/opensuse 11.2 support? Does this mean the latest kernel is supported?

[Melcar]

Ubuntu 9.10/opensuse 11.2 support? Does this mean the latest kernel is supported?

Both of those distros use 2.6.31 kernels.

[rohcQaH]

This might mean anything from "They improved a common codepath a little" to "They finally implemented EXA".

My guess would be the first, possibly obsoleting the no_backfill hacks. There has been some talk about this, and bridgman more or less confirmed that they were doing something about it.

[gbeauche]

"AMD has supplied us with a document giving information"

How come Phoronix doesn't get such "documents"?

Probably because Michael likes NVIDIA more nowadays. ;-)

According to behardware.com information, the only improvements for Linux Catalyst for the next months are:

- Improvement of 2D performance in Linux
- Support for Ubuntu 9.10 and OpenSUSE 11.2

Really, only that?

[RealNC]

According to behardware.com information, the only improvements for Linux Catalyst for the next months are:

- Improvement of 2D performance in Linux
- Support for Ubuntu 9.10 and OpenSUSE 11.2

Really, only that?

That's what we deserve. I mean, we bought their stuff...

[Qaridarium]

This might mean anything from "They improved a common codepath a little" to "They finally implemented EXA".

My guess would be the first, possibly obsoleting the no_backfill hacks. There has been some talk about this, and bridgman more or less confirmed that they were doing something about it.

no exa.. they only do some other optimizations..

[bridgman]

According to this:

http://www.behardware.com/news/10636...their-way.html

Catalyst 10.1 will provide "Improvement of 2D performance in Linux".

The linked article actually says "AMD has supplied us with a document giving information on the improvements that will be implemented over the course of the next months in Catalyst drivers:"

I don't think it mentions the Cat 10.1 release anywhere, does it ?

[Silverthorn]

course of the next months

Up to 6 months then?

Edit:

One feature per month maybe...

January - Support for DisplayPort Audio (already in the 9.12 hotfix). (which means no real update this month).
February - Improvement of 2D performance in Linux.
March - Support for Ubuntu 9.10 and OpenSUSE 11.2. (New kernel).
...

[bridgman]

I doubt it was intended to be that specific