Originally posted by bridgman
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We proposed replacing both of those drivers with a new driver built over the atombios routines, and the developers working on radeon and avivo felt that was a good plan.
So far so good; there would be a new driver based on atombios, supporting 5xx and up, and everyone would support it.
So far so good; there would be a new driver based on atombios, supporting 5xx and up, and everyone would support it.
I don't know exactly about the technical reasons (only that atombios is kind of proprietary and helps to support newer cards more easily in the future) and it probably does not matter, but if there are people writing a good driver for the cards, and it works, why isn't that enough? And today even radeonhd supports atombios, but the work on radeon still goes on?
I still think it would be the best to stop supporting new chips on one driver, in order to have exactly one driver for the new cards. That gives better stability of that driver because every bug is reported to "that" driver.
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