ATI R600/700 OSS 3D Driver Reaches Gears Milestone
Posted by Michael Larabel on July 15, 2009
Months after AMD released documentation, programming guides, and sample code for the ATI R600 (Radeon HD 2000/3000) and R700 (Radeon HD 4000) series, glxgears is finally running atop these newest ATI graphics processors with proper GPU acceleration.
Three AMD employees have been working on this R600/700 3D support in the DDX, DRM, and Mesa, and now they finally have glxgears running atop their 3D driver that is now based off of the radeon-rewrite driver. There's still a lot of work to be accomplished when it comes to usable open-source 3D support with the ATI R600/700 GPUs, but this is an important step.
More on this milestone is shared on Alex Deucher's blog. In order to experience this GPU-accelerated glxgears with a Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series graphics card, the latest xf86-video-ati or xf86-video-radeonhd driver is needed, a special branch of Mesa, and a special branch from the DRM tree. Hopefully within a few weeks/months we will start seeing this OpenGL support work with Compiz and Mesa-supportive games.
Three AMD employees have been working on this R600/700 3D support in the DDX, DRM, and Mesa, and now they finally have glxgears running atop their 3D driver that is now based off of the radeon-rewrite driver. There's still a lot of work to be accomplished when it comes to usable open-source 3D support with the ATI R600/700 GPUs, but this is an important step.
More on this milestone is shared on Alex Deucher's blog. In order to experience this GPU-accelerated glxgears with a Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series graphics card, the latest xf86-video-ati or xf86-video-radeonhd driver is needed, a special branch of Mesa, and a special branch from the DRM tree. Hopefully within a few weeks/months we will start seeing this OpenGL support work with Compiz and Mesa-supportive games.
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