Unix and Linux → Re: Where's Valve going with Linux?

This is also being discussed on the fron page and one theory was going to be AMD/ATI with OpenCL and direct hardware access, what do you think about that?

I find this really hard to believe. They would need to massively increase the resources (aka people paid to work) they have in driver development on linux to make this a reality. This is especially true of their open source drivers. Don't get me wrong, I love amd, but the effort they're putting into linux is despicable.

The only way that would be the hardware is if AMD was throwing piles of cash at the project to get their foot back in the door by leveraging the software to be optimized for their hardware stack.