AMD "Hondo" APUs May Not Be Too Linux Friendly

Re:AMD "Hondo" APUs May Not Be Too Linux Friendly by taylodl on Friday September 14, 2012 @08:10PM (#4524619)

So is this how Microsoft is going to fight Linux on the desktop?

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Re:AMD "Hondo" APUs May Not Be Too Linux Friendly by wmf on Friday September 14, 2012 @08:33PM (#4524709)

In this case Microsoft doesn't need to fight Linux. The burden of proof is on Linux to succeed. If there are no Linux drivers, that's probably just because no one paid for them to be written.

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Re:AMD "Hondo" APUs May Not Be Too Linux Friendly by bryanlarsen on Friday September 14, 2012 @10:59PM (#4525095)

We don't want drivers, we just want complete and accurate specs.

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Re:AMD "Hondo" APUs May Not Be Too Linux Friendly by sliverstorm on Saturday September 15, 2012 @03:16AM (#4525581)

ATI tried providing documentation in response to the community's pleas. If memory serves, the community responded by demanding example code, friendly API's, and so forth. The classic "moving goalposts", if you will.

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Re:AMD "Hondo" APUs May Not Be Too Linux Friendly by tux1968 on Saturday September 15, 2012 @06:20AM (#4525813)

Citations needed. Of course there will be some people who will always ruminate about how things could be even better, but that doesn't undo what AMD accomplished. The feature matrix for open source Radeon drivers is a bit of a patchwork, but far better than it was before they open sourced the documentation.

http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

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