[haiku-development] ATI Video Driver

Now that the S3 Savage video driver is complete except for possible future bug fixes, I'm considering implementing a video driver which will support all the ATI Rage 128 and Rage 128 Pro chips.  In addition, if it does not require too much additional work, it will also support all the ATI Mach64 chips which are slightly older than the Rage 128 chips.

The reasons for doing this driver are that the BeOS drivers do not support all the chips in any of these groups of chips; and for testing the driver, I have video cards with 9 distinct chips which cover most of the types of chips in these groups of chips.

Does anyone know the status of the Mach64 driver which is in the source repository?  I have briefly looked at the code, but have not tried to build it.  It does not appear to support all of the Mach64 chips since it has only 23 chip ID's defined;  whereas, the X.org ATI driver has 35 Mach64 chip ID's defined.  Based upon what I have seen so far, I will probably use the X.org code for the driver.

Regards,
Gerald

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