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Open-Source R300 Driver Adds New OpenGL Extensions For Two Decade Old Radeon GPUs
While the ATI Radeon 9000 / X300 / X500 / X600 series 'R300' GPU support has long been unmaintained on the Microsoft Windows driver side, thanks to the open-source community the Linux driver support keeps going for the old ATI R300 GPUs with that driver also supporting the X700 / X800 'R400' and X1000 'R500' series graphics cards too
Independent open-source developer Brais Solla worked on these extensions for R300 and were mainlined this morning to Mesa Git. This merge landed the support and is confirmed to be working on ATI R300 through R500 (X1000 series) graphics cards. This support will be part of next quarter's Mesa 25.3 release while over in kernel space the Radeon DRM driver continues working with these two decade old graphics cards.
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