[radeonhd] Initial Radeon R6xx/R7xx acceleration support pushed

[Nigel Rantor]

Alex Deucher wrote:
> It's finally here!  r6xx-r7xx-support branches of the drm and
> xf86-video-radeonhd.
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/log/?h=r6xx-r7xx-support
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd/log/?h=r6xx-r7xx-support
> 
> After months of hard work we are finally able to push out initial drm
> and accel code for r6xx and r7xx chipsets.  We couldn't have done this
> without a lot of hard work from a lot of people.  Of particular note:
> 
> Matthias Hopf - implementing r600_demo as a test program to get the hw
> up and running
> Dave Airlie - initial r6xx drm implementation
> John Bridgman - sheparding along the IP review process
> 
> This release is mostly targeted at developers as the code is not
> really ready for regular use.  The accompanying r6xx/r7xx register
> spec is still in IP review and will be released soon.

Yay! Exciting!

Congrats and thanks to everyone who made this possible.

I'm a dev by trade and I'd be quite happy to test it on my system (R770) 
and provide reports, or would you only recommend this for people who 
actually want to hack on it?

   n