Isto sempre vai para a frente, mas para já a parte mais importante parece ser esta:
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Vamos lá ver o que isto vai dar, mas o facto de isto apenas ir suportar GPU que sairão no futuro, não sei.
The good news today is that AMD's still moving forward with this overall process, but it's going to be a transition that will really only affect future generations of hardware.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_bordeaux_strategy&num=1Perhaps the biggest change with AMD's unified driver strategy now compared to the information I had back in March is that it's actually going to result in a new kernel driver. AMD's two Linux drivers aren't going to be running off just a slightly modified version of the existing Radeon DRM driver as anticipated before but it's spawning a new kernel driver. This new open-source AMD Radeon kernel driver is partially based on the existing Radeon DRM driver, but with various changes that have yet to be outlined.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_bordeaux_strategy&num=2esides the open and closed-source AMD Linux drivers sharing the same open-source and to-be-mainlined kernel driver, the two drivers will also use the same DRM library ioctl wrapper (libdrm), and the DDX (X.Org) driver. The X.Org driver shared will be using the GLAMOR acceleration code by default for both implementations -- GLAMOR is the means of doing 2D X.Org acceleration over OpenGL. So in the end the closed-source Catalyst driver on Linux will become just a smaller blob running in user-space for handling OpenGL, OpenCL/compute, etc.
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No Catalyst code is being open-sourced but all the new driver code is based on the existing Radeon code-base. AMD's new Linux driver code is expected to start coming out in stages this fall.
Vamos lá ver o que isto vai dar, mas o facto de isto apenas ir suportar GPU que sairão no futuro, não sei.