Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (330 mails)

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@xxxxxxxx>]

Michael Gaber wrote:
> Luc Verhaegen schrieb:
> > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 04:44:01PM +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> > > Can someone tell me in simple words why there are two free Radeon
> drivers
> > > anyway and how they differ and why X.Org decided to kick radeonhd and
> what
> > > this means for the future?
> > >
> > > Am I right that the joint efforts with ATi go into radeonhd, not into
> radeon?
> > > Dex
> > Radeonhd was just dropped from the standard build script that barely
> > anyone uses anyway.
> >
> > Luc Verhaegen.
>
> but i think the question remains since there is porting back and forth
> and both drivers are about at the same mileage regarding current chips:
> why not merge them into one driver and join forces?

I think because the one is mainly developed by Novell and the other by 
Red Hat and there's commercial tension between the two :P

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