AMD's New Open-Source Employees

[whizse]

libtxc_dxtn of course.

Honestly? How you can even consider it so much better than the other Mesa drivers when you didn't even know it supported S3TC is quite beyond me...

[darkbasic]

Because I do use and benchmark both radeon (both R300g and R600g) and Intel (GM45 and Sandy Bridge)? I opened something like 30 bugs for GM45, when I tell it does suck it's because of problems, lots of problems. I still have to apply patches to vanilla kernels to be able to use the G45 shit. I never felt the need of S3TC with Intel cards and so I never tested it and never cared.

Did you test Sandy Bridge? Can you tell me why don't you like it?

[whizse]

I never said I didn't like it. The only i965 hardware I have is G45. Support was shaky at first but it came along nicely a few releases later.

[darkbasic]

I still have problems with spurious S-Video TV detections, the new native backlight control sucks and there is still no h264 decode support in master, but yeah, it's in a much MUCH better shape than in the past

[darkbasic]

By the way, does your laptop have a TV out connector? If yes I do have a patch you can test to help me merging the patch against spurious detections in vanilla kernels.

[whizse]

G45 so it's a desktop, not a laptop (no TV-out).

Also, keep in mind that the functions and problems you mentioned have nothing to do with the 3D driver, so comparisons are moot.

[darkbasic]

drm is the important part of a driver and it affects 3d performance too, anyway I never mentioned 3d while talking about GM45. I mentioned it while talking about Sandy Bridge.

[PsynoKhi0]

Impressive resumes
Looking forward to what they come up with!

[Adarion]

Welcome, welcome. Good to see the driver staff enlarged. Funny also that Michel kinda comes back home.

[Deathsimple]

Christian König are you continuing working on Video acceleration?

Yes I do, but currently I'm mostly reading docs and trying to cleanup the previous video decoding work.