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Re:AMD's master plan to topple Intel - Back to the top on a ... by rbanffy on Friday July 08, 2011 @09:30PM (#2744743)
With AMD's support for GPUs under open-source? Their lack of support in the past (to the point of not even properly documenting their hardware) is not very encouraging.
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Re:AMD's master plan to topple Intel - Back to the top on a ... by binarycrusader on Friday July 08, 2011 @10:39PM (#2744851)
AMD properly documents their GPU hardware now, and has for at least the last three years.

The real issue at hand is that the open source drivers are incredibly horrid. It's hard to write drivers, surprise!

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Re:AMD's master plan to topple Intel - Back to the top on a ... by rcxdude on Saturday July 09, 2011 @08:00AM (#2745482)
they're catching up right now though, AMD is putting a significant amount of effort into the open source display stack.
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Re:AMD's master plan to topple Intel - Back to the top on a ... by daeken on Friday July 08, 2011 @10:42PM (#2744856)
AMD only released docs on the 2d side of things. 3D is still undocumented, AFAIK.
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Re:AMD's master plan to topple Intel - Back to the top on a ... by wmf on Friday July 08, 2011 @11:16PM (#2744913)
3D is now documented.
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