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> AMD promised open drivers. We're still waiting. No, we aren't. AMD's promise was fulfilled quite a while ago. They officially contributed, and work on, a FOS
by Valmar 8y ago
> AMD promised open drivers. We're still waiting.
No, we aren't. AMD's promise was fulfilled quite a while ago. They officially contributed, and work on, a FOSS driver for the Linux kernel, and also for Mesa. One of their devs is one of the most active Mesa committers this year alone.
AMD are more committed than Intel is, it would seem, given that AMD's drivers are far better quality than Intel's.
- chriswarbo 8y agoI'm happy to be corrected; for the record I searched for this before posting, and found things like https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-the-latest-amd-radeon-drivers-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-the-latest-amd-radeon... which are very recent and talk about installing AMD proprietary drivers. (I haven't been tracking this closely since I've avoid NVidia and ATI (hence AMD) graphics for about 15 years, due to their driver blobs)