RadeonHD Driver Introduces Major Changes

[Michael]

It would be great if someone could nudge the Fedora distrubutors to push this out into the Fedora 8 updates soon. I installed some HD 3470 cards the other day and am waiting for something better than vesa to run on them.

You'll need to get David Airlie to do that.

[CrystalCowboy]

Phoronix: RadeonHD Driver Introduces Major Changes

...The AMD Radeon HD 3400 and 3600 series are now supported and there are a number of other significant changes.

It would be great if someone could nudge the Fedora distrubutors to push this out into the Fedora 8 updates soon. I installed some HD 3470 cards the other day and am waiting for something better than vesa to run on them.

[bridgman]

? Xv is functional already in radeon, up to the R500 level. Was that supposed to be "inside radeonhd"?

D'oh !! (slaps forehead)

Post #5 fixed.

[agd5f]

? Xv is functional already in radeon, up to the R500 level. Was that supposed to be "inside radeonhd"?

That is Correct.

[CrystalCowboy]

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- allows existing acceleration code, including Xv, to be ported and made functional inside radeon

? Xv is functional already in radeon, up to the R500 level. Was that supposed to be "inside radeonhd"?

[izual]

thx! great!

[bridgman]

Just that we are working on them and that nothing has gone wrong yet

[izual]

Any news about R6xx 3D documents?

[bridgman]

Yep. Next priority is adding DRI support to radeonhd, which does two things :

- allows 3d development to be done with radeonhd rather than just with radeon
- allows existing acceleration code, including Xv, to be ported and made functional inside radeonhd

[Uchikoma]

This is because they are doing the 3d stuff, hehe

But I so want XV :'(

Come on people! I have got to migrate soon!!! (talking about OS)

But some 3D needs to be done before Xv can happen haha..so in a way, they are working on Xv. ^^

It's nice to see changes happen though. I monitor the git rss feed and the radeonhd irc channel daily and it was getting disheartening. Haha...