Re: What would make you become an associate member?

It was my understanding AMD released their driver source code in March for 3.4 kernel update.

Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin

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Subject: Re: [Trisquel-users] What would make you become an associate member?

>> What can I do to help Trisquel? If there's a way I can help get the
>> recently released AMD open-source drivers working ... point me in the
>> right direction and I'll go for it.
>
>These drivers (as they have been doing for years) require nonfree
>microcode which is sourceless and (for modern cards) has a license
>forbidding reverse engineering. There is completely no AMD cooperation
>on replacing it. I don't expect this to be easy to fix (although
>Nouveau developers probably did similar tasks for different
>architectures).
>
>(My reason for not being a member is not using PayPal, this can change.
>I don't contribute to Trisquel in programming ways, since I don't
>experience easier bugs and have several other projects I spend not
>enough time on.)