RadeonHD Driver Switches To AtomBIOS

  2008-08-13 00:00:06
A month ago we had shared that the RadeonHD driver would be switching to AtomBIOS, or the ATI video BIOS abstraction layer used since their R400 series graphics cards, and today they have completed this code merger. The Novell developers behind the RadeonHD driver have long preferred the route of banging on the registers directly than relying upon this closed-source (aside from the open-source parser) framework, but they had folded due to pressure from AMD with the time it's taken to support new GPUs and the developers behind held up waiting on register documentation to arrive.

For the past month this AtomBIOS-ized version of the xf86-video-radeonhd driver have lived in a separate development branch, but today more than one hundred patches have been merged to master... 
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