News ATI drivers

[Michael Lorenz]

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Hello,

On Sep 12, 2007, at 15:59, Thomas Coppi wrote:

> On 9/12/07, Otto Solares <solca at guug.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 05:34:44PM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 10:43:12PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Xavier Bestel wrote:
>>>>> as everyone has probably seen already, AMD just publicly  
>>>>> promised specs
>>>>> and a reference driver for all cards starting with R500. Great.
>>>>> Now, for people in the know, is that just a(nother) promise  
>>>>> yet, or are
>>>>> there already Xorg people involved in this new driver ?
>>>>
>>>> They do this (wait, cue the trumpets for the std fanfare) about  
>>>> every two
>>>> years, and so far as I know, not one single line of code has  
>>>> been thrown over
>>>> the fence.  I've wasted well over $500 down through the years,  
>>>> money spent
>>>> because they promised this or that.
>>>>
>>>> All it was in the boardroom was a minor uptick in sales, with no  
>>>> connection
>>>> between the uptick and the propaganda machines output ever being  
>>>> grokked by
>>>> anybody at ATI.
>>>>
>>>> Don't even think of holding your breath, you'll be long dead and  
>>>> buried &
>>>> still no open src ATI drivers, for any of their cards.
>>>
>>> http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/
>>
>> Excellent!! hopefully R{1,2,3}xx specs too...
> r100 and r200 are basically complete afaik, though r300 would still  
> be useful.

I've yet to see /any/ docs for older Radeons, R128, mach64 etc. other  
than more or less obfuscated code in X.

have fun
Michael
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