Reworking The R600 Gallium3D Driver Winsys Back-End

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Reworking The R600 Gallium3D Driver Winsys Back-End

Marek Olšák, one of the most prolific open-source graphics driver developers that isn't backed by any corporation, has made another major improvement to the open-source ATI/AMD "R600" Gallium3D driver. This student developer has reworked the Radeon winsys back-end, which can cause major performance improvements...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTc2Nw

[PsynoKhi0]

AMD, hire him already :P

[crispy]

AMD, hire him already :P

Not before the CEO has got his new gold plated water cooler

[pingufunkybeat]

Go Marek Go!!!

[giselher]

I tested the branch with Amnesia and Minecraft and I can finally use "Normal" as render distance in Minecraft!

[elanthis]

This is pretty cool and a nice performance increase is always welcome.

[clavko]

Not before the CEO has got his new gold plated water cooler

The thing is... the damn company doesn't even have a CEO.
Whoa... there's a whole new poll opportunity...

AMD has no CEO, what say you?
a) "go figure..."
b) "it figures."
c) "meh, me no play chess."