3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...)

[Pegasus Mc Cleaft]

http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd;a=summary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> hackers at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert Huff
> Sent: 27 June 2008 14:59
> To: Sean Cavanaugh
> Cc: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: 3D for AMD64 (was Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer
> acceptable. Bounty established...)
> 
> 
> Sean Cavanaugh writes:
> 
> >  AMD is actively working to opensource the *nic drivers for the
> >  ATI cards starting with the most recent. From a news article iI
> >  came across they were actually hiring a whole new department
> >  whose sole purpose was to add more of the older cards to the open
> >  sorce drivers as well as eventually having 3d acceleration. As
> >  for the NEW 4000 series, the card will come with full drivers for
> >  windows and Linux on the install CD. granted there is still some
> >  coding to get BSD drivers, but AMD is making life better for *nix
> >  user with ATI cards.
> 
> 	Is there any place (web site, wiki, blog) where the public can
> track this effort?
> 
> 
> 				Robert Huff
> 
> 
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