Open-Source ATI Driver Achieves 3D Success

news · May 27, 2008

At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your

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Title: Open-Source RadeonHD Driver Delivers AMD 780 Support ( -at -) Phoronix

Summary: "While the RadeonHD developers have been busy working on Radeon

HD 3200 / 780 Series support and other features for this open-source ATI

R500/600+ driver, the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) support has been

lagging behind. Earlier this month Matthias Hopf was successful in

getting DRM working on an RS690 GPU and he has published RadeonHD DRM

code into his personal development tree, but no code has yet to reach

master. Meanwhile, as the xf86-video-ati driver is using AtomBIOS, they

are able to spend more time working on the 3D features and other areas

and less time "banging on registers" or even waiting on register

documentation to arrive. David Airlie has been working on the R500 3D

support along with Alex Deucher and Corbin Simpson. The trio has been

making some great headway towards open-source 3D goodness for Radeon

X1000 and HD 2000/3000 GPUs. Their most recent efforts have focused

around the R500 fragment program code and today they have reached a

monumental milestone."

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