AMD's 2016 plans for Linux and GPUOpen

[TechGod]

"AMDGPU is part of a larger effort for RTG to unify all of their Linux graphic driver needs behind a single driver. AMDGPU itself is an open source kernel space driver – the heart of a graphics driver in terms of Linux driver design – and is intended to be used for all RTG/AMD GPUs, consumer and professional. On the consumer side it replaces the previously awkward arrangement of RTG maintaining two different drivers, their open source driver and their proprietary driver, with the open source driver often suffering for it.

With AMDGPU, RTG will be producing both a fully open source and a mixed open/closed source driver, both using the AMDGPU kernel space driver as their core. The pure open source driver will fulfill the need for a fully open driver for distros that only ship open source or for users who specifically want/need all open source. Meanwhile RTG’s closed driver, the successor to the previous Catalyst/fglrx driver, will build off of AMDGPU but add RTG’s closed user mode driver components such as their (typically superior) OpenGL and multimedia runtimes."

 

 

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9853/amd-gpuopen-linux-open-source

 

This good. Hopefully they'll be able to steal some market share from the nvidia linux crowd. 

[tahmidkhan123]

its about time. Finally, my desktop can run Linux 

[SeriousDad69]

 

There's not much market share to steal from when it comes to home Linux users lol, but this might help them with professional and enterprise users.