Alex Deucher of AMD has taken the floor at XDC2014, which got underway today in France to provide an update on the company's new unified open-source driver strategy. Compared to what I originally reported earlier in the year when breaking the news, there's some notable changes but overall this is an exciting endeavor for AMD Linux customers with the open and closed source AMD GPU drivers going to share the same (open-source) Linux kernel driver.

Back in March I exclusively wrote about AMD exploring a very interesting and more open Linux driver strategy. That information came during a meeting with AMD representatives during the 2014 Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco. The overall state of affairs where things are moving forward today is largely the same as outlined in that article, but there are some differences.