Re: [Dri-devel] ATI driver for Fire 8700/8800

[Hetz B. H. <he...@kd...>]

I probably didn't explain myself well,

The FireGL card is basically the same as the 7500/7800 with some modification 
to enable it to perform much faster then the 7500/7800.

So basically the FireGL driver can be with some very minor modifications work 
with the 7500/7800 based cards.

Currently (and people - please correct me if I'm wrong) the Linux drivers 
through DRI are not even close in performance compared to ATI's drivers in 
Windows 2k/XP/9X - and as a potential customer - I do expect a company like 
ATI to provide me with the fastest drivers to really use my card.

If I recall correctly, ATI didn't re-hire PI/VA to write the Linux drivers 
for the 7500/7800 cards and ATI said before that they are written in-house..

So Alex, since I assume you work at ATI (at least according to your email 
address) - could you ask for the official stance of the drivers regarding the 
7500/7800? status about them? I hardly belive that telling people about those 
drivers will violate any NDA.

Thanks,
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Hetz Ben Hamo
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