ATI "r500-fp" DRM Merged To Master

Written by Michael Larabel in AMD on 24 March 2008 at 07:16 AM EDT. 6 Comments
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Last Thursday, David Airlie achieved hardware-accelerated glxgears on an open-source R500 Mesa implementation based upon the earlier R300 code. This is a big step forward for open-source 3D on these newer ATI Radeon graphics cards, but it's still a work in progress. However, this morning David Airlie has merged his Mesa/DRM work to the mainline DRM branch. This work, previously housed in his personal git tree under the branch "r500-fp", can now be found in the master Mesa/DRM git. His Mesa work (in the "r500test" branch) still hasn't been merged to master as there is more work to be done on that side.
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