> In The Thread: Windows users thinking improved windows performance somehow equates to improved linux driver quality.
Well, as far as I understood, that's exactly what the entire discussion is about: their HAL that would allow them to reuse large parts of their well optimized and tested Windows code and integrating that into the kernel.
Later in the dri-devel thread, they even admit that DC isn't even being used in the Windows drivers, because by the time the software devs get to write drivers, the hardware devs they should be hooking up with have already moved to the latest/greatest thing, and can't be bothered with legacy.
AMD's drivers are far from "well-optimized", and their internal developer culture perpetuates this problem.
Well, as far as I understood, that's exactly what the entire discussion is about: their HAL that would allow them to reuse large parts of their well optimized and tested Windows code and integrating that into the kernel.