From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose@wanadoo.es>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ATI boards [was Re: Linux 2.4 future]
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 20:00:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031203040022.GS8039@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0312021939400.2072@home.osdl.org>
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
>> Torvalds was talking about R200 chip. Those boards are 8500, and
>> 9100/8500 LE. IMO they are the best for FOSS.
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 07:42:08PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Actually, the whole R2x0 family seems to be largely supported by the DRI
> drivers.
> The newer cards just need a recent enough DRI server to know about them,
> but they should otherwise be ok.
> It's the R300-based cards (ATI 9800 & friends) that apparently don't get
> any open-source 3D acceleration right now.
> (But hey, I may be wrong - I follow the DRI stuff only sporadically).
The graphics drivers do a lot of memory mapping, and so I need to fish
around down there for various things I'm hacking on. How much kernel
content to this would you say there is out-of-tree?
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-03 4:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-03 3:14 ATI boards [was Re: Linux 2.4 future] Xose Vazquez Perez
2003-12-03 3:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-03 4:00 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-12-03 4:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-03 4:26 ` Xose Vazquez Perez
2003-12-03 3:43 ` Gene Heskett
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