Initial R6xx and R5xx display driver relased by Novell, following AMD opening specs

Thursday 20th September 2007, 12:12:00 PM, written by Rys

Novell have released the first alpha-quality display driver for R5xx and R6xx-based Radeon graphics products, for openSUSE, following the release of register specifications by AMD.

The driver provides 2D modesetting ability for supported GPUs under X, and is the first step in getting the hardware drawing pixels, before the more advanced features of a modern display driver are engineered.

The release was made possible by AMD opening up certain low-level documentation for developers to reference, and it marks the first step of AMD's new cooperation with open source developers in creating completely open drivers for their modern graphics processors.

The news was announced on Novell's openSUSE blog.

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