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Nice to see the open source driver progressing. Hoping for a release soon with some fixes for R500-corruption issues when using EXA acceleration (yes, the bugs have all been filed ).
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3D support is actually handled by the mesa and drm drivers, not radeon/radeonhd. The radeon/radeonhd drivers just need to initialize the drm and support the dri protocol to co-exist with the 3D driver, and that support is already there.
Mesa is the "missing link" for 3D on 6xx/7xx right now - and is what we're working on now.
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Oh, quit whining, I had to wait 2 years for 3d! Besides, it's the other driver which will implement 3d for your boards first.
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That's certainly what I want know. I'm guessing not, otherwise it would have said so.
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Open-Source ATI Driver Nears New Release
Phoronix: Open-Source ATI Driver Nears New Release
Alex Deucher has announced a new release candidate for the next xf86-video-ati driver release. The xf86-video-ati 6.11 release has a major rework when it comes to the display output code along with a memory corruption fix for the ATI RS780 memory controller...
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