On Mit, 2012-02-08 at 08:25 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote: > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Witold Baryluk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > So why there are two incompatible drivers, especially when radeon looks > > to be providing framebuffer anyway? Is radeonfb module supporting even > > some older hardware so it is keeped in kernel? > > radeon covers all hw radeonfb covers and more. The reason radeonfb is > still around is that it covers a few corner cases (suspend and resume > on ppc mac cards) which hasn't been ported over to radeon yet. On > x86, there is no reason to use radeonfb.
radeonfb also has console acceleration. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
