Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:54:10 -0500 | From | Jon Smirl <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Small PCI core patch |
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On 11/21/05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > For those who haven't noticed, the latest generation of ATI cards have a > new 2D engine that is completely different from the previous one and > totally undocumented. So far, they haven't showed any plans to provide > any kind of documentation for it, unlike what they did for previous > chipsets, not even 2D and not even under NDA. That means absolutely _0_ > support for it in linux or X.org except maybe with some future version > of their binary blob, and _0_ support for it for any non-x86 > architecture of course.
Are you sure it is a new 2D engine? ATI engineers have mentioned several times that they were looking at removing the 2D engine and going 3D only - using the 3D engine to draw the 2D data.
Removal of the 2D engines is a key vulnerability in the strategy of only using 2D on Linux.
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