Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (400 mails)

[Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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


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