2007/9/5, Leonardo Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Seems that ATI-AMD will open up their graphics drivers: > http://lwn.net/Articles/248227/ > > "A quick report from the kernel summit: AMD's representative at the > summit has announced that the company has made a decision to enable > the development of open source drivers for all of its (ATI) graphics > processors from the R500 going forward. There will be specifications > available and a skeleton driver as well; a free 2D driver is > anticipated by the end of the year. The rest will have to be written; > freeing of the existing binary-only driver is not in the cards, and > "that is better for everybody." Things are looking good on this front. > More in the kernel summit report to come."
Hear, hear. http://lwn.net/Articles/248263/ "The quick report is (for obvious reasons) very vague on the scope of specifications that will be released. To qualify as "2D driver" the only things that are needed is some basic mode setting and drawing. That leaves out a lot of features expected from a complete driver: * 2D acceleration (XAA, EXA ?) * Dual output and TV-out support * Xv & XvMC for video acceleration * RandR for changing resolution * and of course... 3D acceleration Also for laptop users what's nice to have is a driver that doesn't freeze the card on suspend/resume, and the ability to switch to an external screen." Best Martin
