From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264492AbTLCEA3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 23:00:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264493AbTLCEA3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 23:00:29 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([199.26.172.102]:15821 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264492AbTLCEA2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2003 23:00:28 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 20:00:22 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Xose Vazquez Perez , linux-kernel Subject: Re: ATI boards [was Re: Linux 2.4 future] Message-ID: <20031203040022.GS8039@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Linus Torvalds , Xose Vazquez Perez , linux-kernel References: <3FCD5533.8050105@wanadoo.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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