ATI driver support for linux

[William Park]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:58:41AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 06:44:41PM -0400, ted leslie wrote:
> > This was an old thread, but I found it VERY interesting ATI is
> > currently hiring (at head office in Markam) mutliple people to 
> > 
> > work on Linux/ATI drivers  (see workopolis.ca)
> > 
> > nice to hear!
> > 
> > I assume with hired guns in shop, ATI can no longer (for long) have
> > unofficial linux support.  hopefully soon they will have fully
> > supported linux drivers.
> 
> Yeah I applied there about 22 months ago when they were looking for
> exactly the same thing.  Nothing new, but at the time they only had
> (supposedly) one person working on the linux drives (using the windows
> opengl core and such).  Hopefully they have a lot more now.
> 
> I never heard back from them at the time, although they did seem
> rather flooded with applications (I think over a thousand people
> showed up that day for various positions).

I suspect it's another PR exercise.  They can just hire the guys who
wrote the current ATI drivers.  Or, publish their specs, and see who
takes the bait.  In other words, you better have a fully written driver
in your portfolio (or resume).  I read their job description (some time
ago), and I couldn't understand what that had to do with writing ATI
video driver for Linux.

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