Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Small PCI core patch | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:59:02 +1100 |
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On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 11:54 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > 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.
By new 2D engine, I meant the mode setting core.
> Removal of the 2D engines is a key vulnerability in the strategy of > only using 2D on Linux. > > -- > Jon Smirl > jonsmirl@gmail.com
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