Open Graphics Project Status Update (KernelTrap) [LWN.net]

Open Graphics Project Status Update (KernelTrap)

Posted Oct 5, 2005 12:40 UTC (Wed) by job (subscriber, #670)
In reply to: Open Graphics Project Status Update (KernelTrap) by tjw.org
Parent article: Open Graphics Project Status Update (KernelTrap)

It's also important to note that the Radeon 9200 is the end of an era

Not true. There is the R300 DRI project, which is actively working on support for the Radeon 9500-9800 in DRI/MESA. You can't download anything from this particular project, but from dri-devel it looks like they've started to include this support in the CVS head of DRI. I found some success stories on the mailing list.

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Open Graphics Project Status Update (KernelTrap)

Posted Oct 5, 2005 15:49 UTC (Wed) by AJWM (subscriber, #15888) [Link]

I think by "end of an era" the original poster meant that the Radeon 9200 was the last chip for which specs were made available by the vendor. ATI stopped doing that after that model, and nVidia has never (or if so, not for years) made them available. (As in, made available not under an NDA that would prohibit open source code development.)

Drivers for anything after that have to rely on reverse engineering.