suuport for ATI R500 (ex Re: rawhide report: 20070808 changes)

[Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy nobugconsulting ro>]

On 08/08/2007 11:40 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 22:31 +0200, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
>   
> > Build System írta:
> >     
> > > xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.193-2.fc8
> > > ------------------------------
> > > * Wed Aug 08 2007 Dave Airlie <airlied redhat com> 6.6.193-2
> > > - xf86-video-ati 6.6.193. - remove dotclock workaround for now
> > >   It causes crashes bug 251051
> > >   
> > >       
> > Hurray! Finally 3D support for ATI Xpress 200M arrived.
> > At least it's advertised with the new driver in glxinfo.
> > This driver absolutely requires Mesa 7.0[.1].
> > With current Mesa 6.5.2 X will lock up as soon as
> > I start any 3D app, say glxgears. I tested it on F7.
> >
> >     
>
> I'll look at getting the new Mesa into the tree soon so we can actually
> support 3D on this chipset..

A friend of mine asked me to package the experimental free driver for 
ATI R500 (which I did, see 
http://wolfy.fedorapeople.org/xf86-video-avivo/; incidentally, the 
package works for him) Are there any plans to include support for this 
chip in the mainstream package xorg-drv-ati package  ?