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ATI Radeon HD 5850/5870 On Linux?
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| Unlike with the ATI RV770 launch where we were able to
| report on their evolutionary leap in Linux support
| through providing same-day Catalyst drivers and many
| other feature improvements and also had out Radeon HD
| 4850 and Radeon HD 4870 Linux benchmarks. This time
| around though, we have nothing. We have no Evergreen
| hardware in hand and have not even received any
| technical briefings on this new hardware.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzU0OQ
Mesa 7.6 Planned For Release Next Week
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| Mesa 7.6 provides support for a number of new OpenGL
| extensions with its software rasterizer and the Intel
| i965 driver mostly, there is the rewritten
| Radeon/R200/R300 driver that uses the buffer manager
| (a.k.a. the Radeon 3D driver re-write),
| GL_EXT_framebuffer_object support for ATI when using
| the TTM memory manager, proper OpenGL 1.5 support for
| the ATI R300 series (and VBO + OQ support), and the
| assembly shader rework. This in fact is just a small
| portion of the changes. Mesa 7.6 is quite a huge update
| compared to Mesa 7.5, which was just released in July.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzU1NQ
Gallium3D's Softpipe Driver Now Runs Faster
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| The softpipe driver will remain an area that's used for
| experimenting with new ideas by developers.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzU1Mg
VIA's Improved Framebuffer Driver In Linux 2.6.32
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| While VIA's Chrome 9 DRM has yet to be accepted into
| the mainline Linux kernel since its mostly used by
| VIA's binary-only driver and then recently an updated
| 2D driver, with the viafb driver outside of X.Org, this
| frame-buffer driver has picked up many improvements
| with the Linux 2.6.32 kernel.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzU1MQ
Recent:
How Important Is The Wayland Display Server?
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| Last November we detailed the Wayland Display Server, which came about as a lightweight
| alternative to the X.Org Server and leveraged the latest Linux graphics technologies
| (primarily kernel mode-setting), and is designed elegantly with the rendering and
| compositing all being done by Wayland. Quite a bit of work was going on with this
| project early on to the point of running two X Servers within Wayland and then talk of a
| Clutter back-end for Wayland, but over the summer there has not been much to report.
| However, with the KMS page-flipping ioctl going into the Linux 2.6.32 kernel -- which is
| used by Wayland -- there should be some renewed activity with this project shortly.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzUzMQ
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