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Old 1st October 2011
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There was a commit by one of the radeonhd developers that was made months after any activity which was humourous.

TerryP posted it here for me, I figured it was common knowledge now that Novell's radeonhd driver was deprecated.. articles at phoronix and mailing lists have indicated so for quite some time.

It started out as a cooperation between Novell and AMD to add support for the R500 series GPU's which were quite different. AMD also released NDA-free GPU documentation and information about AtomBIOS to the public which allowed the radeon developers to add support to their driver.

http://developer.amd.com/documentati....aspx#open_gpu
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/

The radeonhd driver became pointless. AMD now has paid developers working on the radeon driver, and nobody has committed to the radeonhd driver since 2010.
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