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Re:AMD responds to Linux kernel maintainer's rejection of AM... by Analemma_ on Friday December 09, 2016 @06:29PM (#13142810)
If it was a big secret that this was how Linux worked and it took the companies by surprise, I could see how this could be a bad thing, but it never has been: Linus has always been very upfront that he is Benevolent Dictator for Life and always has the last word. Don't get onboard if you don't like that system.
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Re:AMD responds to Linux kernel maintainer's rejection of AM... by wolfgke on Friday December 09, 2016 @06:31PM (#13142823)
Then all the Linux fans that complained to AMD that they don't deliver open source drivers should from now on better shitstorm the kernel maintainers, since AMD delivered.
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Re:AMD responds to Linux kernel maintainer's rejection of AM... by jlgaddis on Friday December 09, 2016 @06:48PM (#13142922)
There is absolutely nothing preventing AMD from delivering their own open-source drivers to their customers.

They want it in kernel, however, and that means they have to play by the in kernel rules.

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Re:AMD responds to Linux kernel maintainer's rejection of AM... by prodigal_erik on Friday December 09, 2016 @10:28PM (#13143858)
AMD didn't deliver a Linux driver. They delivered a Windows driver plus a bunch of glue code that nobody really wants. In the best of all possible worlds, somebody would dissect the Windows driver for instruction and write a proper Linux driver and nobody would try to run the Windows driver as-is.
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Re:AMD responds to Linux kernel maintainer's rejection of AM... by trome on Saturday December 10, 2016 @04:30AM (#13144866)
This wasn't an open source driver, this was a hardware abstraction layer that they wanted in the kernel so their Windows driver could be distributed under a proprietary license and used without a kernel recompile.

A year ago AMD said they would just use what is currently in the kernel with a few minor modifications to get their driver working in userspace, apparently they did not follow through on that though

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