Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (311 mails)

[Brad Langhorst <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 13:02 +0100, TommyDrum wrote:
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> Hello, I'm getting a little confused on what happened at fosdem,
> especially in regards on what is reported on phoronix:
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> First, on the radeonhd mailing list I had asked about xvideo support on
> the R6xx, and Alex responded (essentially) with "it'll happen when Tcore
> is released". Today, reading on phoronix, I found out that Alex Deucher
> gave xvideo support to the R100 to R400 series on the ati-git tree, and
> later on that David Airlie did the same at the R500 series and RS690
> on... again the ati-git tree?
>
> I now am officialy confused, as I thought that (based on the xorg wiki
> at http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonhd) the R5xx and R6xx were supported by
> the radeonhd driver, not the ati driver...
>
> Could someone shed some light on all of this please?

They're supported by both...
I, for one, think it's great to see stuff happening in two places at
once.  

I don't know much about the technical differences between ati/radeon and
radeonhd - so maybe somebody with some expertise will respond with a
balanced comparison.

Speaking generally (and maybe incorrectly) i think ati/radeon is
evolving to handle the newer chips while radeonhd is a from scratch
effort.



brad

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