AMD Releases R600/700 Programming Guide

[bugmenot]

Thank you Alex and John!

[mirv]

Thankyou AMD!

[nanonyme]

Great work from the AMD guys. Wasn't this kinda the last doc even semi-required after which the ball completely moved to the opensource community? As in, if the drivers still will take a long time, we only have ourselves to blame.

[MaestroMaus]

+1 kuddo for the AMD guys.

[Pfanne]

BIG THANKS!
im really excited about all this and cant wait for the drivers to available!

[Dummy00001]

*standing ovation*

[Yfrwlf]

Perhaps some day AMD/Ati will be the choice for Linux because good opensource drivers are available (my personal hopes are that the catalyst drivers will get a bit better as well, so they can really get on par with nvidias drivers).

Excited as well, but I still hope fglrx dies as soon as the open drivers catch up and it's not needed anymore. That circumvents them needing to open source it if there are issues with that, and then they can focus their efforts on a much more open future for the GNU/Linux platform.

Seeing the CCC open sourced would be neat too, but again, if they don't open source it I hope they help make an open source GUI to tweak their (and other) gfx cards or simply help contribute and enhance the graphics configuration GUIs and command line programs which already exist which would probably be more ideal. Perhaps enhance xrandr or something else to do more complicated tweaks to graphics performance (like mipmaps, various frequencies, etc etc).

[Heiko]

Nice going AMD!

Lets hope this helps in finally letting die that bad reputation Ati has for their drivers. The opensource drivers provide choice for the end user to pick the best driver available. It also means that these graphics cards will be supported for a long long time (because the community has the ways to do this). And it means that Ati is the way to go for the opensource guru that hates the binary blobs, which are the only things that other manufacturer provides .

Perhaps some day AMD/Ati will be the choice for Linux because good opensource drivers are available (my personal hopes are that the catalyst drivers will get a bit better as well, so they can really get on par with nvidias drivers).

Anyway: my next graphics card (after an HD4870, an HD3450 and an integrated HD3200) will certainly be an AMD/Ati one again.

[Adarion]

That makes me hope that my new onboard chips will be working nicely soon. And I hope that these powersaving features will also be implemented finally.

[korpenkraxar]

radeon and radeonhd are xorg drivers, used for modesetting and 2d. Xorg uses mesa for 3d, so it doesn't matter which one you pick.

there are several branches of mesa, radeon-rewrite being one of them. bridgman has explained them several times (use the search function), but the baseline for end users is: pick whatever is announced on phoronix

Great! Thanx! I should have known that really. In my defense I am just emerging from a horrible cold and my much brain is still suspended

I am using radeon on my Thinkpad and have not tried radeonhd yet. I seem to hear less fuzz about the latter one but it is still actively developed no? Are there significant feature differences between the two in other areas such as 2D rendering, suspend/resume, xrandr and powerplay?