News ATI drivers

Adam Williamson awilliamson at mandriva.com
Tue Sep 11 16:09:34 PDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 00:49 +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote:

> Anyway, we know that this is taking long, but we want to be somewhere 
> when we push out our code as we will be swamped in userreports for a few 
> weeks as soon as we do send this out. Given the nature of the hardware 
> (you won't believe all the fiddly bits that need to be set up), and 
> the fact that we currently know 96 pci-ids (not counting the r6xx 
> firegls yet) there is a lot of pain to come.
> 
> It certainly is not going to be finished or shiny or whatever, but we 
> don't want to put us, or anyone else (like the users testing this new 
> code) through more trouble than needs be.

Thanks for the update, very useful.

If it's PCI IDs you want, I'm your man - I have 291 IDs for
Radeon-generation cards overall, and 97 for r500 and r600
series...fairly close to the complete collection, I think.

I think it's going to be a bit late for Mandriva 2008, unfortunately (we
hit code freeze this weekend), but never mind, I'll start playing with
it as soon as code's available...

the only question I haven't seen a final answer to yet, I think - what's
going to happen with the existing avivo driver now? It's just dropped,
merged into the new project...?
-- 
adamw




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