Timothee Besset wrote:
>
> That is great news. I was about to inquire about those recently released
> FireGL drivers that are said to work with the 8500. Is the developement of
> those drivers related in any way to TG?
AFAIK, the drivers themselves utilize the DRI and were written by the
FireGL group at ATI.
> As far as Doom3 Linux goes .. I think there's still a long way before Doom3
> can run with all features enabled on an open source ATI driver. As you are
> aware, Doom3 makes heavy use of pixel shaders and other advanced features.
> Don't ask about ETAs or what the plans for a 'technology test' of Doom3
> Linux are though, cause I have no idea .. all I can say is that Id would
> help out driver developement / testing / performance feedback on Linux as
> much as possible.
Correct, you won't see HW pixel shaders in this open source driver.
Perhaps someone can comment on HW pixel shader support in the FireGL
binary only driver.
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