AMD Releases Open Source Driver For New ATI Graphics Processors

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

> Hi
>
> Just in case you have been living under a rock, specs as well as drivers
> have been published now.
>
> http://airlied.livejournal.com/50613.html
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd/
>
> http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/09/07/amd-releases-open-source-driver-for-new-ati-graphics-processors/
>
> "Graphics drivers are important because they are a critical part of the
> user experience. The goal of Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux is for
> all hardware to “just work” out of the box. Since binary drivers can’t
> be included in these distributions, support for graphics hardware
> requires open source graphics drivers"
>
> Rahul
>

There was a mention that Suse was releasing a driver 'shortly' is there
any info about whether Redhat/Fedora are contributing or aiding in this
development?

Would love to read more about it.  While it's still early days if there is
an improved 2D driver would that get ported/backported to Fedora 7?

Cheers,

Marc