Campaign for Radeon HD driver support

[Hans_]

Is this using the recently provided documentation for R500, R600 and R700 series chips that AMD released?

Yes. That and the accompanying code which they released with a BSD license. Their documentation has too many holes to be used alone (no AtomBIOS details, missing registers, etc.).

Just to clarify, the driver requires minimum Amiga OS 4.x. With several people still working on Amiga OS 3.x stuff, I think that it's worth being specific about requirements.

Hans

[Hans_]

Do you think a driver could be developed for OS3.x ?

In theory, yes. However, the slow speed and lack of DMA on any of the PCI bus-boards means that it's not worth it, IMHO.

Hans

[Hans_]

Uhm, why would it matter? While Radeon support can not be ever incorporated into old Amigas (due to lack of BIOS on some older Amigas) it should not be worse than existing gfx cards.

I said that it would be possible, but I personally don't think that it's worth it. Sure it won't be worse than existing gfx cards, but it's a fair bit of effort to make that happen.

Hans