AMD Releases R600/700 3D Documentation

Jan 27, 2009, 18:03 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Michael Larabel)

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"When AMD pushed out its R600/700 3D code, we shared that AMD would quickly be releasing these specifications, but they didn't clear final review prior to the holidays. The R600 3D register guide is 166 pages long and covers R600 shader instructions, R700 shader instructions, shader textures, and various other registers needed to program a 3D graphics driver. This register guide is targeted solely for driver developers and is not anything for end-users. If you are interested in the R600/700 3D register guide, it can be downloaded at X.Org.

"This register information was what AMD and Novell had used to write the initial 2D/3D open-source code, so this guide should be fairly complete and allow their new open-source stack to grow. Within a few months we should see a modest open-source R600/700 3D driver beginning to appear in the different desktop Linux distributions."

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