RadeonHD Driver To Use AtomBIOS

news · July 6, 2008

At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your

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Title: RadeonHD Driver To Use AtomBIOS ( -at -) Phoronix

Summary: "We've talked all too often about AtomBIOS and there being two

different open-source drivers that support the same ATI Radeon hardware

with the key architectural difference between the two just being the use

of this video BIOS abstraction layer. From the beginning, AMD was

planning to have their Novell partners use AtomBIOS when writing this

new (at the time, R500/600) driver, but the developers ultimately

declined. These developers have expressed their opinions on AtomBIOS,

which range from it being an unbearable mess to this design being

nothing more than writing open-source code to power someone else's

closed-source work. However, under pressure by AMD, the developers are

now preparing to use AtomBIOS to a much greater extent within the

xf86-video-radeonhd driver. In this article we'll tell you more about

what's gone on and where you can checkout this AtomBIOS-bearing RadeonHD

driver."

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