is this to say that chipsets after 9250 will *never* be supported by Free drivers? or that they just aren't supported right now?
The 9200 and 9250 the strongest chips supported by the DRI project at this time.
There is a project[1] which (from what I understand) attempts to make use of the existing DRI and reverse-engineer some of the basic specs for the R300 and later chips (Radeon 9500, 9700, 9800, etc.) so that hardware acceleration can be used on those cards without the need for ATi's proprietary drivers. Hopefully that may become usable not too far in the future and a lot of ATi's current cards will be able to run using entirely F/OSS driver support. I have nothing to test it on so I have no other knowledge of its current status other than what's described on its website.
For more information about DRI's support for ATi's Radeons, you may also want to check the DRI project's website.[2]
Hope that helps...
[1] http://r300.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ATIRadeon
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