skaroo writes “Phoronix is reporting that future AMD GPUs will be more open-source friendly. After AMD started releasing their GPG specifications to the open-source community, questions arose whether there would be data covering the Unified Video Decoder (UVD) found on the Radeon HD 2000 graphics cards. The UVD info is needed in order for hardware-accelerated video playback, but it likely cannot be opened

due to DRM. However, an AMD representative said that moving to a modular UVD design is a requirement for future GPUs and that they will be more open-source friendly. They will additionally be opening the video acceleration data for their earlier graphics cards.”

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