AMD Radeon R9 290 Open-Source Driver Works, But Has A Ways To Go

With the Linux 3.17 kernel, Mesa 10.3, and the newest Radeon microcode files, there’s finally working Hawaii GPU support by AMD’s open-source Linux graphics driver. The Radeon R9 290 series launched nearly one year ago and finally now the open-source driver is working right, so we’ve conducted some preliminary tests using the R9 290 compared to AMD’s other Radeon GPUs on the open-source Linux driver.