AMD: Additional Parts of the Radeon Stack to Be Open Sourced Throughout the Year

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Before you get your hopes up, this is the reply from tiny corp

> The MES is mostly a red herring. We are looking for the MEC to be open sourced + documentation of how the hardware scheduler works and what can cause deadlocks.

It's step by step. AMD is not shy of Open Source, from my experience. They just need to get their ducks in a row, both from IP and legal aspects.

I remember the times when their driver didn't support power management so it burned my PSU's 3.3 rail, now their cards run out of the box, and people are pushing for bleeding edge.

I am guessing this is because of George Hotz? If so, the article could do with a little backstory.

See,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39888020

https://github.com/geohot/7900xtx

Phoronix talked about it in a post a few weeks ago

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lisa-Su-Tweet-OSS-Firmware

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