>>>>> "MC" == Mike Chambers <mike@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: MC> I thought radeon was already done, adn now avivo was being created MC> for the newer cards? R200 had public documentation for most things, but of course you can't really get R200-based cards these days. R300 and R400 derivatives that don't have avivo setup cores were reverse engineered but still haven't been figured out completely. The avivo driver provides unstable and completely unaccelerated 2D for a few cards that it has been hacked to work with. MC> So I don't get the driver development part? Well, it's pretty obvious that there's a lot more left to do. The current state of free Radeon drivers is not really good at all although its certainly better than nothing and old cards can generally be expected to run OK. Saying that things are "done" is not anywhere near the truth, unfortunately. - J<
