AMD Dropping R300-R500 Support In Catalyst Driver

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Title: AMD Dropping R300-R500 Support In Catalyst Driver ( -at -) Phoronix

Direct Link: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13559

Summary: "Beginning next month with the Catalyst 9.4 release, support

for the R300/400/500 generations of graphics processors will be dropped

from AMD's mainline ATI driver. In a move they hope will allow them to

focus their efforts on newer and upcoming graphics processors, the

mainline Catalyst driver on both Linux and Windows will stop supporting

cards older than the Radeon HD 2000 series. Linux customers affected

will be encouraged to use their open-source driver stack (xf86-video-ati

or xf86-video-radeonhd and Mesa) or stay with the Catalyst 9.3 driver."

 

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