[ Thanks to Michael for this link.
]
“Last week the first open-source ATI R500 (Radeon X1000 series)
driver had entered the world. This new driver (named the
xf86-video-avivo) is very early into development, but a small set
of developers have been working on reverse engineering this GPU
class for the past couple of months. This driver does not yet
contain any 3D functionality or support for features that most
end-users expect. At this point, the driver just contains very
basic initialization and set video mode support for a portion of
the Radeon X1000 family. Even with this very basic R500 driver, we
couldn’t help but to explore the Avivo driver for the past few
days.“For those that have missed our past articles on the R500 status
in Linux, up to this point the only real solution with 3D support
has been using the fglrx binary blob…”
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