[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for this
link. ]
“For the past several weeks we have been referencing AMD’s
‘tcore’ in several of our articles, which is a user-space software
suite that has been developed and used internally at ATI by
engineers to work on various aspects of their binary drivers. Tcore
is primarily used for testing prior to the availability of the
actual silicon for their forthcoming graphics processors. John
Bridgman and Alex Deucher have been working tediously to get this
tcore source-code sanitized and cleared for public release, and
finally they have reached this milestone. AMD has just published
the first bits of open-source 3D programming documentation for ATI
GPUs. This 3D programming documentation covers the R500 series and
even goes back with information on the R300/400 series as well. The
R600 3D programming guide will also be out soon. This information
available today is what will foster the growth of open-source
R500/600 3D support for the Radeon and RadeonHD drivers as well as
R600 2D acceleration…”