The ATI Evergreen DRM Now Has Blit Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The ATI Evergreen DRM Now Has Blit Support

While just earlier today we reported that the ATI Evergreen open-source 3D code may soon move into a Gallium3D driver while for now it's rather stagnate within the classic Mesa R600 driver, there is good news today to report from the Evergreen DRM/kernel side too. AMD's Alex Deucher has just released a patch to the Radeon DRM to enable blit support using the 3D engine for ATI Radeon HD 5000 series hardware...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODU4Mw

[kernelOfTruth]

nice !

everything is nicely coming together now - this just feels like last year with my old 4xxx card - only this time it's happening faster and better

[droidhacker]

nice !

everything is nicely coming together now - this just feels like last year with my old 4xxx card - only this time it's happening faster and better

Probably because there is no longer a backlog of old crap to deal with first.

[bridgman]

Well, a smaller backlog anyways

[nanonyme]

Maybe the backlog could be made to be even smaller next year? \o/

[bridgman]

Yep, by next year it should be really small.