AMD's RadeonHD Driver Reaches v0.0.2

Posted by Michael Larabel on October 17, 2007

Last week the RadeonHD development was rather slow with only 30 commits to their xf86-video-radeonhd git tree all week. However, the Novell developers have been making some good progress this week. Earlier this week there were a few fixes to the RadeonHD driver and AtomBIOS. Today so far there have been fifteen commits. These changes represent a number of fixes, adding additional queries, semantic changes, and one of the most notable commits is adding support for libpciaccess. The open-source R500 Avivo driver has supported libpciaccess for a while, but now it's finally coming to the RadeonHD driver. PCI rework/libpciaccess is the new generic PCI access library and is meant to be platform independent. As libpciaccess is relatively new, the RadeonHD driver hooks into libpciaccess but at the same time maintains backwards compatibility with older versions of X.Org. If XSERVER_LIBPCIACCESS is defined, the RadeonHD driver will take advance of this PCI library. The driver version has also been bumped to v0.0.2.

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