[svlug] Light AMD laptop for linux?

[Joe Buck]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 07:49:27AM -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> However, there is a
> light at the end of the tunnel: AMD has promised to rewrite all of ATI's
> drivers from scratch, and make the Linux ones open-source. If you get any
> AMD-based system, make damn sure the motherboard chipset is ATI-based.

That's great news, and the first I heard of it (though I've read of lot of
people *speculating* that AMD would be friendlier than ATI).  Has AMD put
a public statement about this on the web anywhere?  Who said it, and when?