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Unless you have a really old OS version, you actually don't get your driver from AMD, you get it as a part of your Linux kernel: most Linux drivers aren't manag
by clhodapp 8y ago
Unless you have a really old OS version, you actually don't get your driver from AMD, you get it as a part of your Linux kernel: most Linux drivers aren't managed as standalone open source software projects, they are simply merged into the kernel itself.
- pritambaral 8y ago> you actually don't get your driver from AMD, you get it as a part of your Linux kernel Thankfully. However, the open source driver that is now part of the Linux kernel did indeed come from AMD, and could not have come from anywhere else. Your parent said AMD publishes the sources to its (only) driver. That they happen to publish it with the Linux kernel wrapped around it, through kernel.org, is also true, but not incompatible with the claim that they publish it.