[geeks] Can't decide on an OS

Nathan Raymond nraymond at gmail.com
Thu Sep 26 11:15:25 CDT 2013


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Jonathan Patschke <jp at celestrion.net>wrote:

>
> It's my understanding that AMD and nVidia both document their graphics
> cards at the register level these days.  The documentation is not
> particularly friendly, and it requires subject-matter expertise to digest,
> but, the docs are there.
>

Until recently only AMD was documenting their hardware reasonably well for
open source drivers.  NVIDIA just about-faced on that though:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/nvidia-seeks-peace-with-linux-pledges-help-on-open-source-driver/

- Nate


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