radeon - evergreen (aka r8xx) status

Posted Dec 11, 2009 1:07 UTC (Fri) by bridgman (guest, #50408)
In reply to: radeon by rfunk
Parent article: 2009 Linux Graphics Survey Results (Phoronix)

>>The only problem is that in a year we'll have r800 cards supplanting the
r700s (as r700 is currently supplanting r600), and I haven't heard anything
about open specs or drivers for those.

Alex (agd5f) has been working on Evergreen support for a while; he got analog VGA working quickly but had no luck with digital outputs (DVI, HDMI etc.). We decided to start IP review of the current patches a few days ago anyways - no ETA yet, but I should know better once we get some HDMI audio and 6xx/7xx power management info out. We want to get that out first in order to hit the 2.6.33 merge window.

As of a few minutes ago it looks like agd5f may have found the problem with digital output code. Keep fingers crossed.

radeon - evergreen (aka r8xx) status

Posted Dec 11, 2009 12:52 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

Great, that's good to know! Thanks!