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Comment by muyuu | Hacker News Reader

I hope this means their Linux drivers will stop sucking as hard as they do now.

I run their closed drivers on a 5870 HD (I know the open ones do 2D just fine, but I need openCL for work) and boy are they crap.

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AMD's windows drivers aren't exactly good either. Plenty of known VPU crash bugs that aren't getting fixed, and every now and then a good old BSOD. In fact, as many bitcoin miners know, the linux driver performance is actually higher. There is something wrong with their driver team and/or management.

Take it from someone who uses both OSs with the same card: The Windows ones might not be great, but the GNU/Linux ones are a new dimension of evil. Check my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3734065

This has no impact on their closed drivers. This is patches being released for their open source driver. So it means their open source driver for the 7000 series will stop sucking as hard as it did before ('sucking' meaning that it was non-existent).

If they fully support 3D, CL and all features, this could perfectly mean their closed source drivers are phased out by these new open ones.

What's wrong with these drivers exactly? I've got two PCs one with a 5450, the other with a 6450, and I didn't encountered any problem. In fact, I had no problem while I had quite a lot of freezes with nVidia previously.

Are you sure you are not using the open source (not made by AMD) ones?

A lot of the work on the open source stack which supports AMD GPUs is done by AMD employees.

No, I'm using the Catalyst driver, to use 3D. I even play games, on Linux; go figure :)

Try Gnome 3/Unity and enjoy the crashing :)

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