On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Stelios Xanthakis
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi.

I have a PC with an integrated radeon 3000 gfx card
(pci id 9616) and I'd really like to be able to use
the linux framebuffer with a proper driver because
vesafb has all sorts of problems.

I plan to start with the usual procedure of copying
stuff from the xf86-video-ati drivers, since this
card is already supported by xf86-video-ati-12.

The question is, are there any pending patches for
the radeon drivers, or git trees that may have
relevant work for the R600 chipsets?

Support for modesetting and hence fb devices is being added to the radeon drm:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=drm-rawhide
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~glisse/drm-next/log/?h=drm-next-radeon

We hope to get support for r1xx-r5xx chips into 2.6.31.  Modesetting
support for r6xx/r7xx chips is already in place, but they are still
missing some memory management bits.

Alex

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