News ATI drivers official AMD confirmation

[Jon Trulson]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Otto Solares wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 01:13:05PM -0700, Hal V. Engel wrote:
>> AMD officially confirms open source intent.  See
>>
>> http://www.linux.com/feature/119049
>
> Just wondering what all this means for us poor R100/R200 users
> when our open source driver performs 1/2 [1] as the now discontinued
> (for r100/r200) proprietary driver and 1/4 as other not to be
> named OS ;)
>

   I did not know the OSS ATI R200 drivers were *that* bad, especially
   in 2D.

> -otto
>
> [1] http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=6482

   Kindof useless... Why don't these phoronix guys actually use real
   benchmarks (like viewperf), or do they just aim for gamers?

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