you mean the one they have been talking about for years and failed to deliver anything? AMD's people have a lot of mouth, but not much to show in that department. Their proprietary Linux drivers suck bad, are not being improved, and their new kernel module is just hype at this stage.
If you can source any good SOC from AMD in small batches at reasonable price with support, then I bet ED will be happy.Hint : he tried hard, but was ignored at best...
Could be a close escape...!
Did you try the open source drivers with a moderately recent kernel? YMMV
This kernel module specifically was announced just last October and is currently under heavy development, everything before that was indeed nothing to be really excited over, work on it just started at that point. It will only support GCN 1.2 and newer, which means the Radeon R9 285 is the only card so far that will be supported. Developing this stuff from scratch for a new architecture takes some time, especially if you run into legal issues that require additional reviews from their legal department.Yes, they did planned to introduce this approach much earlier, but the code ATI left them with was simply a horrible mess, according to one of their developers they tried but failed miserably - if you think the fglrx driver is crap now, you haven't seen how bad it was before AMD took over. I still remember trying to set up a 2nd monitor with Xinerama because it didn't even support RandR 1.2... BTW: One of the reasons this driver still performs so bad with some games is that it is still mainly developed for the main audience on Linux: professional use cases like CAD.
Magic 8 ball says....OMG HλLF-LIFE 3 confirmed and exclusive to nVIDIA Shield 2 portable!!
Agreed, specially on the bold part. I don't know where this mystification of the awesomeness of open source Intel GPU drivers comes from, but they have been far more buggy and quirky than the radeon drivers for quite some time now, and they usually go their special way on many things (VAAPI, non-G3D, not yet fully DRI3 compatible, ...). They are ok, and they are open, but that's about it. The best about them is the development Intel does for mesa in general, which IS quite awesome.
It's good to dream. I think that sounds about as likely as them shipping a product with a Radeon.
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