Ben Taylor wrote: > James Cornell wrote: >> I'll let others suffer for now with RadeonHD, I still don't trust >> ATI, especially since they are now part of AMD, the management >> perspective is a bit blurred and to me, untrustworthy at the moment. >> It's not proven, and neither is the track record under AMD >> management, and performance wise NVIDIA has never let me down. >> > > AMD/ATI are releasing the specs for the R500/R600. > > Suse/Novell is driving RadeonHD, but it appears that RedHat is pushing > the radeon driver from their end. This can be confirmed by the fact > that my x1550 is supported by both radeonhd and radeon using > the current git head. To my eye, the radeon driver is better performant > compared to the radeonhd on my 32-bit Linux box. I've not been > able to compile radeon git on SXCE. > > Ben Exactly why it doesn't and will not matter to me for the foreseeable future. The hardware is definitely wimpier, why else would they even consider pushing specs, they're dieing of course. The main problem here is "I've not been able to compile radeon git on SXCE" that gives me a lot of confidence. Sun needs to support it, not the community, they made a deal with NVIDIA to distribute drivers in SX:CE and SX:DE as well as Solaris 10, and even though the specifications are open, quality control wise, until we can even get some sort of module loading, how can we trust the module, let alone debug things that are alien to the system. (Linux is the main target, giving us the nasty bits due to retarded programming model on their part)
Sorry if this offends anyone, but my point is, it's nice to see specifications out, but it does no justice for implementation, let alone on OpenSolaris. The confidence is not there about it, nor is there proven test cases or any real packages supporting it to any degree. Performance is also questionable to those who have founded upon working solutions. If I were to upgrade my notebook, I would surely consider RadeonHD because performance could be theoretically better, but on the desktop, sorry AMD will never compete based on past, present, and future unknowns. I'll let you guys have the brunt of the pain, sorry. James
