Posted on Tuesday, February 02 2010 @ 5:27 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Months after the ATI Radeon HD 5000 series (known by the
"Evergreen" family codename) was introduced, AMD has finally pushed out
the first bits of open-source code. This morning if you are to checkout
the xf86-video-ati DDX driver branch there is initial user-space
mode-setting support for the Radeon HD 5000 series GPUs. The ATI kernel
mode-setting support that we really care about these days is also about
done, but it isn't yet published. The open-source ATI driver currently
offers no 2D (EXA) acceleration and the 3D support either through a
classic Mesa driver or Gallium3D also is not yet available.
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