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Things are Still a Mess
by segedunum on Thu 10th Sep 2009 00:14 UTC
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Until ATI/AMD commits to going down this development route for all of their chipsets then we're still going to get a disconnected mess with fglrx - which simply shouldn't exist in my view. The trade secret NDA card has been played for years as an excuse as to why a driver isn't open sourced and in the kernel, it has shown to be false and AMD, and especially Intel, are in the process of showing that it is bogus for graphics.

We always seem to be saying "Oh, it's just around the corner" with graphics support on Linux - permanently. We've still got lots of drivers doing their own thing and even reimplementing a ton of the Xorg stack (yes, you nvidia) and still a load of differences between what a device supports and what a driver can actually do with it. If only graphics drivers were cajoled into being open sourced and using a shared codebase like those in the kernel.

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