[Dri-devel] Re: dri driver features page

[Mike A. H. <mh...@re...>]

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Nicholas Leippe wrote:

>> Some other enhancements I thought of that could be made: 
>> - show only the driver notes for the currently selected driver 
>
>I see someone did this and someone also made the chip titles links to the 
>details below like the original page.  Much nicer, thanks.
>
>> - have extensions default to "no" unless they are specified for a 
>> particular driver.  That would make editing/adding extensions easier.
>
>Sure--doesn't really matter too much.
>
>I noticed that R200 lists the Radeon 9000.  This is actually an R250 part 
>iirc.  If it's the same driver, should we change R200 to say R200/R250 ?
>They are similar, but not identical of course.

RV250 actually.

The DRI website contains a few other inaccuracies about ATI's
Radeon video hardware.  Nothing mission critical, but it is 
incorrect:

http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/radeon_naming.html

Radeon VE a.k.a Radeon 7000, is not R100, it is RV100.

Another thing missing is the original "Radeon LE", which was made 
by a third party in the Asian region.  This card is claimed to 
have no TCL unit, however it is a Radeon QD and is identical to 
any other Radeon R100 cards (which are also QD), and does in fact 
have a TCL unit.  I believe the BIOS and/or Windows drivers for 
this card simply disable the TCL unit, but since the chip is a 
QD, like all other QD boards, it has a TCL unit.  The only 
difference I know of between this board, and the real "Radeon 
7200" aka "Radeon 64 DDR", is the type and speed of the memory, 
and that the TCL unit is somehow disabled via software.


* Radeon 8700 (FireGL)

It's really called "FireGL 8700" and "FireGL 8800", and both are
as stated on the page Radeon R200 based chips, but neither was
ever marketed as "Radeon 8700" or "Radeon 8800", so that will
just confuse anyone reading it.  It is more correct to list this
card the way that ATI names it, under it's FireGL name.

At the bottom of the page:

    *  7X00 denotes a R100 based card.

Should be removed, as Radeon 7000, is RV100, not R100.

Also, ATI just released 3 new cards this week, none of which are 
supported in X yet, but which are likely incredibly easy to add 
support for once the PCI IDs are known.  The Radeon 9200 Pro, 
Radeon 9600 Pro, and Radeon 9800 Pro

Radeon 9200 Pro == RV280
Radeon 9600 Pro == R300
Radeon 9800 Pro == R300

Just thought I'd post this to help improve the accuracy and
completeness of that Radeon page.

Take care,
TTYL

-- 
Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat