Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Question about radeon 3000 driver

[Alex D. <ale...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Stelios Xanthakis
<sx...@ce...> 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