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		amelius 63 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AMD GPUs Go Brrr > Their incentive is to sell more HW and at higher prices using whatever shady practices they can get away with, software or no software. And you don't think these shady practices will leak into the software? > Modern silicone is orders of magnitude more complex that nobody else besides the manufacturer could write the drivers for it... The hardware people at the manufacturer are not the software people. So there __must__ be documentation.

jack_tripper 63 days ago [–]

>So there __must__ be documentation.

YES, internal documentation, full of proprietary IP.

amelius 63 days ago | [–]

But not releasing said documentation is a choice. And that goes against my original point.

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