Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 9th Sep 2009 22:29 UTC, submitted by lemur2
Open source 3D graphics drivers for ATI R600 garphics cards has been submitted to the kernel-next tree for possible inclusion in the Linux kernel 2.6.32. "David Airlie has pushed a horde of new code into his drm-next Git tree, which is what will get pulled into the Linux 2.6.32 kernel once the merge window is open. Most prominently, this new DRM code brings support for kernel mode-setting with R600 class hardware as well as 3D support."
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"Production ready" is relative, but it's going to be in Fedora 12 released in November. The notice that started this whole thing says that he's adding it to rawhide: http://airlied.livejournal.com/68097.html (Dave Arlie works for Red Hat).
It will almost certainly be buggy, but it's not useless. It's already working well with: desktop effects, Google Earth, Open Arena, Nexuiz, SuperTuxKart, Half Life, and Deus Ex (in WINE).
Anyway, even if you aren't sold on these drivers ever getting as good as nvidia's binary drivers, you should at least recognize that this is good news for all the platforms that they don't support. Linux PPC/ARM, or Haiku, for example.