Dear developers What can these initial drivers from Suse do? It it not clear to me, why a new series of drivers have to be made. I mean, there are already many supported ATi cards in X. So does this mean, that when the initial Suse drivers gets 2D and 3D, the xorg drivers will be depricated? Lots of love, Louise -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 22:35 +0200, Louise Hoffman wrote:
Dear developers
What can these initial drivers from Suse do?
It it not clear to me, why a new series of drivers have to be made. I mean, there are already many supported ATi cards in X.
None of which are supported by the radeonhd driver. The radeonhd driver is designed to support r500 and r600 cards. At the moment, there is the avivo driver which supports r500 cards, but was entirely reverse engineered and supports very limited 2D functionality.
So does this mean, that when the initial Suse drivers gets 2D and 3D, the xorg drivers will be depricated?
The avivo driver will probably be (assuming no one wants to continue working on it), but the open source drivers for r100, r200, r300/r400 cards will not be going anywhere. Adam -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org
None of which are supported by the radeonhd driver. The radeonhd driver is designed to support r500 and r600 cards. At the moment, there is the avivo driver which supports r500 cards, but was entirely reverse engineered and supports very limited 2D functionality.
Okay...
The avivo driver will probably be (assuming no one wants to continue working on it), but the open source drivers for r100, r200, r300/r400 cards will not be going anywhere.
I see. Does there exist a roadmap or todo? I know a little C. Are there anything I can do, or does it require a lot of coding experience and perhaps even the NDA specs? Hugs, Louise -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:02:04PM +0200, Louise Hoffman wrote:
None of which are supported by the radeonhd driver. The radeonhd driver is designed to support r500 and r600 cards. At the moment, there is the avivo driver which supports r500 cards, but was entirely reverse engineered and supports very limited 2D functionality.
Okay...
The avivo driver will probably be (assuming no one wants to continue working on it), but the open source drivers for r100, r200, r300/r400 cards will not be going anywhere.
I see.
Does there exist a roadmap or todo?
I know a little C. Are there anything I can do, or does it require a lot of coding experience and perhaps even the NDA specs?
Hugs, Louise
AMD has made the already available specs available without NDA. Luc Verhaegen. SUSE/Novell X Driver Developer. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org
AMD has made the already available specs available without NDA.
Are we talking about these?: http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/42589_rv630_rrg_1.01o.pdf http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/RRG-216M56-03oOEM.pdf I way I understood it is, that these are the specs for the mode settings only. The specs on how to use the draw engine would not be open. Love, Louise -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:54:45AM +0200, Louise Hoffman wrote:
AMD has made the already available specs available without NDA.
Are we talking about these?:
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/42589_rv630_rrg_1.01o.pdf http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/RRG-216M56-03oOEM.pdf
I way I understood it is, that these are the specs for the mode settings only. The specs on how to use the draw engine would not be open.
Love, Louise
They will be open too, but this takes time and quite some effort :) Luc Verhaegen. SUSE/Novell X Driver Developer. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org
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