Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon VE? (Carl Busjahn)

[David S. M. <da...@re...>]

   From: Mark Allan <ma...@em...>
   Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:59:06 -0700
   
    You should do your own research. The Radeon VE does not have T&L, and
   neither does the laptop Radeon chip. Even if you had a Radeon variant
   that does support T&L in hardware, that feature is not enabled by the
   current DRI drivers. 

This is all well and good until someone figures out what knobs to
change in the windows registry to turn the "hardware disabled" feature
back on.  Or what binary editing to make on the driver to forcefully
turn T&L on for the VE chips.

This is what happened for the first Radeon's ATI claimed lacked
Hyper-Z, it simply was software disabled in their drivers and a quick
windows registry setting change did away with that.

I really doubt they would make a truly crippled version of their chips
considering the extra HW Q/A and verification this would entail.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
da...@re...