AMD Releases Open Source Driver For New ATI Graphics Processors

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Sep 18 13:49:25 UTC 2007


Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
>> 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/

> 
> 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?

See the link above for the code from Novell. David Airlie who works for 
Red Hat has a long history of working on drivers for ATI cards so this 
is likely to be a cross vendor effort.

> 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?

That seems unlikely. This is the early stages of a initial code drop. 
Probably would take a few more months for things to settle down.

Rahul




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