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Wanna know why AMD drivers are so broken? I talked once to an AMD project managery guy. He told me how they have several teams in different countries. And for
by so_tired 8y ago
Wanna know why AMD drivers are so broken?
I talked once to an AMD project managery guy. He told me how they have several teams in different countries. And for each feature/bug different managers have to "bid" with weekly resource estimates. Bid too high and you dont get enough work for your peoples. Bid too low and they end up with unpaid overtime. Rinse and repeat.
And these are kernel developers...
EDIT: to be clear, I am rooting for competition to Intel and NVIDIA. I just dont think this kind of culture can work on the software side.
- thfuran 8y agoThat's totally insane.
- ezoe 8y agoSeriously? That doesn't work in an entity who share the same revenue. Everyone lose. They should rather hire the economist as their boss.
- bane 8y agoI'm not sure how to respond to this other than WTF?
- Yizahi 8y agoThough it is anecdotal information and relevant to AMD drivers from several years ago, but when AMD driver crashed (about once a year) it did so without affecting the system and restarted itself correctly, I only saw error message and windows going briefly to "basic" theme and back to aero. When Nvidia driver crashed (again, about once a year) it takes down entire system, it actually freezed Windows so completely that even ctrl-alt-del didn't work, and I had to power cycle the PC.