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

[Bertrand Marc]

Patrick Matthäi a écrit :
> 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?
>   
Hello,

I would have plenty of comments about AMD, but let's stick with fglrx... 
On our end I think we just need to make it clear to users still using 
R300-500. As you said 9.3 will probably not work with squeeze, so it has 
no sense to upload a legacy driver, hasn't it ?

I am curious to see what commercial distribution (as Ubuntu) will do 
about it. Maybe they'll patch 9.3 as long as possible and we will be 
able to use their work ?

Bertrand