[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for this
link. ]
“Back on September 6th of this year AMD shocked the open-source
community by committing to the development of a new open-source
display driver (this driver is now known as RadeonHD) and that they
would be providing specifications to the development community. A
week later, they set precedence by not only releasing the
documentation to the developers but to the everyone! Their first
batch of documentation covered the basics for the RV630 and M56
GPUs and was released freely to the public without any
Non-Disclosure Agreement! However, they still have much more GPU
documentation that has yet to be released. Some simply believe AMD
is doing this as a publicity stunt, but today we have new details
to share as they prepare for their next GPU documentation
release…”
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