Originally posted by Eosie
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ATI R300-R500 Gallium3D Driver Is "Mostly" Done
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Bwahaha, it's not the 1st time I regret a little to have only these modern R600 based chips. When I see all the goodness happening on R100-500 first. I guess I'll have to be patient a few more months.Stop TCPA, stupid software patents and corrupt politicians!
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Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostIsn't that the whole point of the "Softpipe pass-through" stuff that Michael said was marked done? Performance of apps that require that would be very bad but developers would just have to realize that can't be used on those cards, as I'm sure they already do. And the drivers would fully support GL2 - there's no requirement for doing it at any certain speed.
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Originally posted by Eosie View PostThe history tells us not to believe Michael on these things.
Now I'm not expecting him to be fault-free or an expert in anything he's writing news about. In fact I enjoy the aggregate news, if only to click on the links. I just wish there was a way to prevent the ensuing forum-drama every time something's off
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Originally posted by Eosie View PostHowever, there is a little problem. As far as I know, r3xx-r5xx does not fully support non-power-of-two textures (e.g. the repeat wrap mode and mipmapping) and it is the prerequisite for GL2.0.
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Originally posted by Zhick View PostWell, ATi Catalyst is able to pull it off somehow, so I guess it's actually is not that a big problem.
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Originally posted by rohcQaH View PostA good way to deal with phoronix news is to click on every link that doesn't lead back to phoronix and read them. Most of the time, the news contain no more than a short summary of the linked article, and sometimes Michael rushes the news and gets it wrong.
Now I'm not expecting him to be fault-free or an expert in anything he's writing news about. In fact I enjoy the aggregate news, if only to click on the links. I just wish there was a way to prevent the ensuing forum-drama every time something's off
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Originally posted by iznogood View PostAlso i want to ask why there is no gallium on r100 chips?
The hardware types are so different there's really no way to come up with a sane driver architecture for both.
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