Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Dec 2003 20:00:22 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: ATI boards [was Re: Linux 2.4 future] |
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On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: >> Torvalds was talking about R200 chip. Those boards are 8500, and >> 9100/8500 LE. IMO they are the best for FOSS.
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 07:42:08PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Actually, the whole R2x0 family seems to be largely supported by the DRI > drivers. > The newer cards just need a recent enough DRI server to know about them, > but they should otherwise be ok. > It's the R300-based cards (ATI 9800 & friends) that apparently don't get > any open-source 3D acceleration right now. > (But hey, I may be wrong - I follow the DRI stuff only sporadically).
The graphics drivers do a lot of memory mapping, and so I need to fish around down there for various things I'm hacking on. How much kernel content to this would you say there is out-of-tree?
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