Woohoo! Does this also apply to their latest R3xx core Radeons such as the 8500 and up? Or only their old crummy ones?
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Richard Smith wrote:
Wonderfull news... I got this back today from ATI. Looks like someone with some clout there finally gets it.
So I'm about to start porting some biosless init code I received over to Linux. Then work it into linux bios.
I take back everything I said bad about ATI. *grin*
Tell all your OEM buddies that ATI Mobility M1 video chips are about to become LinuxBIOS friendly in the near future.
Sorry for the lengthy delay. There is a lot of detail here. Basically, you can develop code with our documentation, and then release it under GPL - no issues there.
If you want to produce a biosless chip init procedure, you can use the documentation I pointed you to. If you have any questions, feel free to email me about those documents.