April distribution release: radeon or radeonhd for r500 / r600 cards?

[JoJo jojo]

for r500/r600 radeonhd is more mature,
support in radeon is still pretty new.

once we go past the maturity aspect, you may choose

stability Vs. features
(radeonHD Vs. radeon)

-JoJo

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Adam Williamson
<awilliamson at mandriva.com> wrote:
> Hi, all. We are releasing Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring in early April. For
>  my sins, I maintain Mandriva's graphics card -> driver mappings (a big
>  list of PCI IDs with matching drivers, more or less).
>
>  Question is this: should we use radeonhd or radeon as our default free
>  driver for r500 / r600 chips? Now r500 / r600 support has been added to
>  radeon I am unclear on the picture here. Are these two efforts competing
>  or collaborating? Is one or the other clearly the sensible choice?
>
>  I understand the difference in approach between them - the use of
>  AtomBIOS - but what we're principally interested in is the sheer
>  practical question of which is going to produce the most usable results
>  for the most r500 / r600 owners, in the version in which we ship them.
>  The decision is purely for this release and can easily be changed in
>  future if the situation changes.
>
>  As things stand we would ship with version 6.8.0 of ati (radeon). We
>  currently have a January 27th git snapshot of radeonhd; depending on
>  some feedback I'm waiting for from users, and / or the response I get to
>  this post, this snapshot could be updated.
>
>  I don't have any r500 / r600 cards here. I have asked all MDV
>  development branch users with such cards for their feedback, but that's
>  not really comprehensive and the results so far give no clear indication
>  in favour of either driver.
>
>  Thanks for any input anyone can offer.
>  --
>  adamw
>
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