While the RadeonHD developers have been busy working on Radeon
HD 3200 / 780 Series support and other features for this open-source ATI
R500/600+ driver, the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) support has been
lagging behind. Earlier this month Matthias Hopf was successful in
getting DRM working on an RS690 GPU and he has published RadeonHD DRM
code into his personal development tree, but no code has yet to reach
master. Meanwhile, as the xf86-video-ati driver is using AtomBIOS, they
are able to spend more time working on the 3D features and other areas
and less time "banging on registers" or even waiting on register
documentation to arrive. David Airlie has been working on the R500 3D
support along with Alex Deucher and Corbin Simpson. The trio has been
making some great headway towards open-source 3D goodness for Radeon
X1000 and HD 2000/3000 GPUs. Their most recent efforts have focused
around the R500 fragment program code and today they have reached a
monumental milestone.
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