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List:       openbeos
Subject:    [haiku] Re: Res: Re: Firefox 3+ for Haiku
From:       Gerald Zajac <zajacg () sbcglobal ! net>
Date:       2010-01-25 19:15:46
Message-ID: 4B5DEDE2.4010609 () sbcglobal ! net
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Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> On 01/25/2010 10:43 AM, Gerald Zajac wrote:
>> Michael Oliveira wrote:
>>> Is possible create a ati readeon hd driver
>>>
>>> based upon radeonhd from X driver?
>>>
>> I don't know the answer to this question.  The ATI driver that I did 
>> supports only the ATI Mach64 and Rage128 chips;  whereas, the ATI 
>> Radeon chips are handled by Haiku's Radeon video driver.  Someone 
>> would have to look at the X radeon driver to see if it handles the 
>> radeon hd, and they would probably need the chip ID in order to 
>> determine if it is handled by the X radeon driver.
>>
>> -- Gerald
> 
> 
> The 'radeon' Xorg driver does support all radeonhd GPUs up to, and 
> including, the HD4950, and it would probably make more sense to extend 
> the current Haiku radeon driver to support radeonhd cards instead of 
> creating a separate Haiku driver based on a separate Xorg driver :-)
> 
I was not suggesting that a separate driver for the radeon hd be 
implemented.  My intention was to suggest using the X.org driver to 
determine what code would need to be added to Haiku radeon driver to 
handle the these video chips.

-- Gerald


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