AMD Fusion open drivers

[jonwil]

Does AMD plan to open specs for the AMD Fusion GPU+CPU combo? (the one that competes with the Intel ATOM+PowerVR combo)

Or will AMD follow every other vendor (PowerVR, NVIDIA, Qualcomm) in the "mobile GPU" space and keep their specs closed?

[agd5f]

Open drivers are already written, just waiting for final approval to release.

[89c51]

Open drivers are already written, just waiting for final approval to release.

are those driver gallium based??

[glisse]

are those driver gallium based??

Driver is mostly 2D, the 3D part is likely close to evergreen so yes there will be a gallium driver ie the one that already exist.

[bridgman]

Yep. Most of the patches are for the kernel driver and X driver; the 3D driver doesn't change much at all.

IIRC Alex ended up with 21 kernel patches, 4 ddx patches, and one mesa patch. The mesa patch is for the classic mesa driver right now, but I imagine adding support to the Gallium3D driver should be very similar.