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Title: AMD Publishes Open-Source HD 7000
Post by: Deafboy on March 21, 2012, 05:01:31 PM
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA3NDE (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA3NDE)

"AMD has finally released the open-source driver code to support the Radeon HD 7000 "Southern Islands" GPUs and next-generation Fusion "Trinity" APUs under Linux with their open-source driver..."


Title: Re: AMD Publishes Open-Source HD 7000
Post by: ctoon6 on March 23, 2012, 01:26:32 AM
Is this a new development, as in this is the first time amd ever release drivers, or is this just an "update"?


Title: Re: AMD Publishes Open-Source HD 7000
Post by: rjk on March 23, 2012, 01:48:34 AM
Is this a new development, as in this is the first time amd ever release drivers, or is this just an "update"?
An update, and one that won't work for us as the drivers do not appear to support the GPU compute operations needed for bitcoin mining.