ati 6.9.0rc1 release Lots of changes since the last release. Main things are EXA composite support for r3xx/r4xx/r5xx chips and textured video support on all radeons. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2008-June/000585.html please add the ebuild :-) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Planning on it, just haven't gotten to it yet.
Created attachment 157113 [details] Basic ebuild for 6.8.191 Here's a basic buildable ebuild for 6.8.191 that simply removes all the patches as they are all part of 6.8.191. The problem with 6.8.191 from a packaging perspective is, that it drops mach64 and r128 support from the codebase and assumes separate drivers are used for supporting those. This means at least the following for packaging: a) xf86-video-r128 and xf86-video-mach64 need to be packaged (released as separate 6.8 releases on 11th June) b) xf86-video-radeon needs some migration, perhaps just some elog or ewarn c) If the drivers install things under the same name, then the ebuilds involved need to block eachother as appropriate d) VIDEO_CARDS USE_EXPAND variables need to be adjusted at some point, which is a bit complicated until the splitouts go stable. Perhaps a video_cards_mach64? ( || ( x11-drivers/xf86-video-mach64 <x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.8.190 ) ) or similar until then, but could as well just wait it out and only have VIDEO_CARDS=radeon as usual that will ignore mach64 and r128 splitouts until they go stable Hope this information helps Donnie a bit
I meant to also say the attached ebuild does none of that and is just useful for people who want it now now now and don't care about r128 or mach64 (make sure to re-emerge with the version in portage once something hits the tree...) And a s/xf86-video-radeon/xf86-video-ati in the above comment. However I do wonder if they plan to rename it to xf86-video-radeon at some point - it makes a perfect follow-up to this as just the radeon families is now what this package supports; and then xf86-video-ati could just be a compatibility meta package from our side.
(In reply to comment #3) > And a s/xf86-video-radeon/xf86-video-ati in the above comment. However I do > wonder if they plan to rename it to xf86-video-radeon at some point - it makes > a perfect follow-up to this as just the radeon families is now what this > package supports; and then xf86-video-ati could just be a compatibility meta > package from our side. It's still got the ati wrapper in it.
bump. http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati.git;a=summary xf86-video-ati 6.9.0 RC2 Driver Released xf86-video-ati-6.8.192
6.9.0 is released. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2008-June/000596.html Version 6.9.0 of the radeon driver. Lots of stuff since 6.8.0 In addition to lots of bug fixes there are several major new features: - - Improved EXA render support for r1xx/r2xx cards - - EXA render support for r3xx/r4xx/r5xx cards - - Textured video support for Xv (r1xx-r5xx) with a long list of changes.
I'm on the lists, you don't need to tell me here. =) It's just a matter of getting around to it, which I did tonight when the actual non-RC release came out.
