Re: ati x1400 (text mode) F7+

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:18:01PM -0500, James Hubbard wrote:
> On 2/27/07, Alan Cox <alan redhat com> wrote:
> >Correct. AMD are blocking release of code for this. Please make sure AMD
> >understand you don't like it. Please understand that for many kernel
> >developers this is an "Intel platform bugs get automatic priority" issue.
> 
> Is there a link to some info about blocking the release of the
> opensource driver?  I couldn't find it via google.

http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/view_abstract.php?content_key=189
http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/linuxsymposium_procv1.pdf
http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied/talks/ols06/ols2006.od5xx + future

>From the R500 slide

Brand new 2D engine

Open source driver code with ATI for 3 months for review

2D support is approx 600 lines of code


.. 3 months was last OLS

Alan