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Old 09-12-2007, 12:40 PM
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Phoronix: AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs

Ending off the X Developer Summit this year, Matthew Tippett handed off ATI's GPU specifications to David Airlie on a CD (as reported by Daniel Stone). However, the specifications are also now available on the Internet! At http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ is the location of the documentation where you can freely download the files.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item&px=NjA1Mw
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Old 09-12-2007, 01:20 PM
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Wow, that's some dry reading...
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Old 09-12-2007, 01:21 PM
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Wow, AMD IS delivering... interesting, most interesting indeed!
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Old 09-12-2007, 02:31 PM
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nice. can't wait to get my hands on the driver. the new fglrx instantly dissapointed me - it might be new and "magical", but it still has all the shortcomings of a binary driver.

i'll keep waiting for this one instead.

/me goes to look at the specs :]
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Old 09-12-2007, 03:33 PM
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That's nice... Now we can hope for a decent driver...

I haven't tried 8.41 as I left my notebook at home today.

Will probably wait for 8.42 with AIGLX support and more bug(fixes hopefully).
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Old 09-12-2007, 03:42 PM
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I would be tickled beyond words for opened sources, but that's NOT likely.
Tickled enough, Svartalf?
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Old 09-12-2007, 03:58 PM
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Old 09-12-2007, 04:00 PM
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Are these documents the complete specs that a programmer would need to implement good quality free drivers? Are they real? Do they work?

Can I really buy ATI hardware now and expect free drivers for it reasonably soon, or is there going to be a post in two weeks saying "ATI Specs Incomplete / Useless"?
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Old 09-12-2007, 04:08 PM
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Are these documents the complete specs that a programmer would need to implement good quality free drivers? Are they real? Do they work?

Can I really buy ATI hardware now and expect free drivers for it reasonably soon, or is there going to be a post in two weeks saying "ATI Specs Incomplete / Useless"?
These specs document the 2D portion of the RV630 and M56. More documents will be out in the coming days and weeks (including the 3D portion).

The first OSS driver will be released is Monday.
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Old 09-12-2007, 04:20 PM
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Alas a working quality driver (full driver) will probably be still at least six moths off.
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