[ZoomerCretin]

He loudly gave up on AMD after they did not fix a blocker he had for 5+ months and gave him the runaround the entire time when he asked for the code to fix it himself. He is still shipping the AMD tinybox with huge warning labels.

[magicalhippo]

Randomly stumbled over this[1] post with another fed up open source contributor, due to several serious issues with AMDs GPU drivers and firmware that remain unresolved for years. It also references the geohot decision you mention.

Some quotes:

I find it incredible that these companies that have large support contracts with you and have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into your products, have been forced to turn to me, a mostly unknown self-employed hacker with very limited resources to try to work around these bugs (design faults?) in your hardware.

In the VFIO space we no longer recommend AMD GPUs at all, in every instance where people ask for which GPU to use for their new build, the advise is to use NVidia.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/1bsjm5a/letter_to_amd_...

[Art9681]

Didn't they recently announce that everything was open sourced? Would be cool if he took another look at it once all of the souce code is available (if not already).

[xjay]

> They haven't open sourced anything. They posted a tweet. [1]

[1@2024-04-06] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7MRj4N2Cyk&t=429s

[Twitch] https://twitch.tv/georgehotz