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phoronix
03-12-2008, 08:20 PM
Phoronix: RadeonHD Driver Introduces Major Changes

Following a period of relative inactivity in the xf86-video-radeonhd git tree over the past few weeks, this afternoon Novell's Egbert Eich had pushed forward 55 changes to this open-source R500/600 driver. The AMD Radeon HD 3400 and 3600 series are now supported and there are a number of other significant changes. The RV620/635 mode-setting support has required the most significant work since the R500 series, since all output blocks have been altered due to the introduced DisplayPort capabilities. We have already tested out this latest code and were left with a positive impression.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12005
yoshi314
03-13-2008, 05:57 AM
cool. i was kinda worried by relative lack of activity in the radeonhd git repository.
sundown
03-13-2008, 09:49 AM
cool. i was kinda worried by relative lack of activity in the radeonhd git repository.

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)
Uchikoma
03-13-2008, 12:33 PM
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...
bridgman
03-13-2008, 02:08 PM
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
izual
03-13-2008, 02:27 PM
Any news about R6xx 3D documents?
bridgman
03-13-2008, 02:32 PM
Just that we are working on them and that nothing has gone wrong yet ;)
izual
03-13-2008, 02:35 PM
thx! great! :D
CrystalCowboy
03-13-2008, 04:01 PM
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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"?
agd5f
03-13-2008, 04:05 PM
? Xv is functional already in radeon, up to the R500 level. Was that supposed to be "inside radeonhd"?

That is Correct.
bridgman
03-13-2008, 04:40 PM
? 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.
CrystalCowboy
03-20-2008, 09:39 AM
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.
Michael
03-20-2008, 09:43 AM
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.