NOTE: This blog gives a "behind the scenes look" at the progress of the RadeonHD driver's development. As such, its contents reflect the state of the development version of the driver, and not the state of the publicly released version.
Milestone One - A Working Frame-Buffer RadeonHD Graphics Driver for Amiga OS 4.x
Posted by Hans de Ruiter
Today (13 October 2008) I have successfully opened a screen using the Picasso96 RadeonHD driver. There are still a few issues to sort out. For example, the colour look-up tables are not set, resulting in some funny colours. Also, the 16-bit screen-modes do not display correctly. Nevertheless, this is an important milestone. It is now possible to open screens (including workbench) via this driver. Being just a frame-buffer driver, there is no hardware acceleration for graphics, meaning that all rendering must be performed by the CPU. As a result, dragging windows can be sluggish. Interestingly, compositing does work, but switching it off speeds up the system.
RadeonHD - First Screen
Posted by Hans de Ruiter
Today marks the first milestone in the RadeonHD for Amiga OS 4 project. A Radeon X1300 graphics card has successfully been programmed to open a 1280x1024 true-colour screen and an image has been displayed. The graphics card was a VisionTek Radeon X1300 256MB PCI card that has been plugged into one of the PCI slots in my Amiga-one for over half a year now. With this success, I am now confident that I can, in time, write a proper Amiga OS 4.x driver for this card. Thus, this project is now revealed on this website for the first time.
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