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Between Fedora 12 and 13Between Fedora 12 and 13Posted Dec 4, 2009 17:35 UTC (Fri) by leoc (subscriber, #39773)In reply to: Between Fedora 12 and 13 by drag Parent article: Between Fedora 12 and 13
I am no expert, but it seems to me that if/when the graphics functions do move into the CPU, it would by necessity have to be much more open than the situation we have now.
For example, how could ATI/AMD could keep its video technology a "secret" without hindering the CPU as a result? Would you have to load a "proprietary blob" to be able to run anything on it under Linux?
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Between Fedora 12 and 13 Posted Dec 4, 2009 22:39 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Um, CPUs already contain secret proprietary magic uploadable binary blobs.
Neither AMD nor Intel publicise the format of their CPU microcode.
Between Fedora 12 and 13 Posted Dec 11, 2009 21:21 UTC (Fri) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link]
Yes, but once they are loaded you have access to the instruction set of the CPU, unlike say with NVIDIA video cards that hide everything behind the closed driver.
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