Re: [Dri-devel] Sync of Radeon branch

[Thomas E. V. <va...@te...>]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 12:30:37AM -0500, Kevin E Martin wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:37:33PM -0500, James Carscadden wrote:
> > 
> > Will this branch be synchronized any time soon, or will it be merged
> > into trunk any time soon or am I out of luck so far as radeon dri is
> > concerned?
> 
> Rest assured that you are not out of luck.  Work is progressing on the
> Radeon 3D support and it will be committed to the CVS tree as soon as it
> is ready.  We will also bring the latest fixes from the trunk into the
> ati-5-0-0-branch, but that will most likely happen after 4.0.2 comes out
> so that all of the 4.0.2 fixes will be incorporated.

I have been watching this list on and off for several weeks now, and I am
curious about the prospects for Radeon.  Is the progress "on the Radeon 3D
support" leading toward a performance level equivalent to a G400 or TNT2,
or is there any work begin done toward hardware geometry acceleration?

I am working on a large visualization project, and we so far have several
machines, two with Matrox G400 cards, one with an NVidia TNT2 card, one
with an NVidia GeForce card, and one with a 3Dfx Voodoo3 card.  So the only
machine that can take advantage of hardware geometry acceleration is the
one with the GeForce card.

We would prefer to use free software wherever possible, however, and so we
are eager, toward that end, to identify appropriate hardware.

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Thomas E. Vaughan <tho...@ns...>
CIMMS/NSSL, Norman, OK, USA