Open-Source AMD Fusion Driver For Ontario Released

[safan80]

This is pretty cool. Those shows in the article are creepy cliuck the link and you will see what I'm talking about.


http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...rio_open&num=1

While we are still waiting on open-source support for the AMD Radeon HD 6000 series of graphics cards that were released last month, today AMD is releasing their initial open-source support for their Ontario hardware. AMD's Ontario is their low-powered Fusion processor designed for use in netbooks and other such devices. This dual-core chip with integrated Radeon HD 6250 graphics is only starting to ship now, but the open-source support for this first AMD Fusion chip is now available to Linux users, complete with 3D support.

Update: This article was written this morning in advance of the public code drop. Now that we have our eyes on this code, it is indeed very exciting to see there's both classic Mesa and Gallium3D support for AMD Fusion and not just R600c support like we were originally told. In particular this initial support mentions the Fusion "Palm" graphics chip, which we're now told are Evergreen ASICs. There's also a reference to "Sumo" when it comes to the new firmware for Fusion, of which there are three new firmware/micro-code files. Four new PCI IDs are listed as part of this support within the DRM and Mesa drivers. Some of the patches now hitting the dri-devel mailing list include support for other features too like power table parsing, blit support, and thermal sensor support.

[Nintendork]

Fusion is near, I see some tablet love.