Just to be clear here, Alex spent a lot of time in the last year or so working on KMS support for older GPUs, going back as far as the R100/RN50 generation. We felt this was an essential part of enabling the general transition from user modesetting to kernel modesetting, which in turn is a pre-requisite for many of the other cool things that users want to see.
The transition from AGP to PCIE started near the end of the R3xx generation and continued through the R4xx generation, so working on AGP was kind of unavoidable.
I'm having a tough time reconciling the conflicting views of "AMD is evil for dropping support for older GPUs from fglrx" and "AMD is misguided for having its devs work on older chips in the open source drivers", though...
The transition from AGP to PCIE started near the end of the R3xx generation and continued through the R4xx generation, so working on AGP was kind of unavoidable.
I'm having a tough time reconciling the conflicting views of "AMD is evil for dropping support for older GPUs from fglrx" and "AMD is misguided for having its devs work on older chips in the open source drivers", though...
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