[Halfmanhalfamazing]

I don't think this is about the open sourcing of drivers, rather it's about opening up specs so that OSS guys can create their own drivers.

There's too many issues behind them opening up their drivers.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

oss bump

[JerseyHighlander]

The questions remain:
Will AMD/ATI produce cpu’s, motherboard specs, video cards, and integrated gpu specs that DO NOT have HDCP encryption chips located on the hardware? (The answer is probably NO)

Will AMD/ATI open up enough that driver authors will be able to circumvent HDCP, putting AMD at odds with the HDCP consortium?

AMD will end up getting sued by Hollywood if they allow robust access, where on eof the first things to be done is to create plug and play HDCP cracking drivers.

Silicon Image didn’t have a good day.

[JerseyHighlander]

http://airlied.livejournal.com/31180.html

ATI has had Open Sourec 2D drivers in their hands for about a year. And refused to release the drivers to the public.

So, we’ll have to see if ATI is finally going to attempt to match NVidia’s compatibility in a Linux environment.