OSNews > Thread > "RE[2]: I am reserved." by Constantine XVI

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Sep 2007 20:10 UTC, submitted by diegocg

Daniel Stone is announcing the avalability of the first AMD/ATI specs - chips RV630 and M56 apparently. The specifications are released without an NDA.

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RE[2]: I am reserved.

by Constantine XVI on Thu 13th Sep 2007 01:10 UTC in reply to "RE: I am reserved."

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2006-11-02

First off, this is only the 2D specs. 3d is coming later. And the OSS driver is due in a week or so according to /.

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RE[3]: I am reserved.

by burnttoy on Thu 13th Sep 2007 17:15 in reply to "RE[2]: I am reserved."

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2006-07-28

It's even less than that - I had a quick scan through and all this stuff will let you do about 3 things. 1 - run VGA mode, 2 - setup your own video modes and memory timings, 3 - run video overlay surfaces and hardware mouse cursors.

I couldn't find any HW acceleration of blit,fill etc stuff in there at all.

Mind you, it's a start.

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