ATI HD 3800 Supported By Open-Source

Yesterday we reported on the brand new Radeon HD 3850 / 3870 graphics cards and their status under Linux. Later then we reported in AMD Preparing For Another GPU Documentation Release that these new RV670 graphics cards should "just work" with the RadeonHD driver thanks to the use of the AtomBIOS. This morning, Novell's Luc Verhaegen has confirmed in a thread in the Phoronix Forums that these new GPUs should already be supported by xf86-video-radeonhd. The RadeonHD developers haven't actually seen either the HD 3850 or HD 3870 yet, but it's expected that by just adding the correct PCI IDs that these new graphics cards will work with this open-source graphics driver.