AMD to Open Source ATI drivers?
Created on 10th August 2006 01:01 PM.
I think there's a real opportunity here for AMD to step in and Open Source ATI's graphics drivers. It'd be great for the Linux community to know that they could get an AMD CPU and at the same time be confident of having an Open Source graphics driver.
This makes a big difference on laptops particularly, because Open Source graphics drivers make suspend/hibernate a lot easier to do. Which would be nice.
Without this, I'm very likely to make my next laptop purchase be an Intel chipset with an integrated graphics card. Enough to run XGL and a bunch of games would be fine for me, which seems very do-able.
