[Pkg-fglrx-devel] AMD Dropping R300-R500 Support In Catalyst Driver

[Patrick Matthäi]

Hello,

I just saw this today:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_r500_legacy&num=1

Fact:
AMD will drop the support with 9.4 for all cards which are older than 
the HD 2000 series to focus on newer card. 9.3 will be the last release 
which supports 300-500 cards.

How annoying..

Also we are not able to support the legacy driver until Squeeze, due of 
Xorg ABI bumps (incompatible with Xorg 1.5.99) and the kernel module is 
also not every time in a good way patchable..

Comments?