Just a quick note to say a huge thanks to everyone who's offered support (financial, hardware-wise, or just verbal) to the r5xx project -- we really appreciate it. A couple of FAQs:

Thanks! Where can I send money?

Sadly, money isn't the issue: we have jobs/university theses/lives to tend to. We just lack for time right now.

Thanks! Where can I send hardware?

If you have a card that you won't be needing back (we may lose or fry it), please email myself (daniel@fooishbar.org) and Jérôme (j.glisse@gmail.com), detailing what you have, and we'll get back to you if it'll be useful to us.

Will this work with the X2xxx cards (r6xx)?

Yeah, pretty much. It just needs someone to hack up the small amount of code to deal with it.

What's happening with X1650 and above (r530/r580)?

Most of the code is written, however, initialisation doesn't happen correctly for some reason.

What's happening with 3D support?

It should be relatively simple to implement from the existing driver, as the engine is believed to be extremely similar, but we want to get the basics working before we start attacking things like this.

Which tools do you guys use?

For tracing the video BIOS, we use a hacked version of xresprobe: vbetool will instrument the BIOS quite well. For tracing fglrx, we use a hacked version of valgrind: run it against the X server, making sure that it is not suid root. For getting impatient and playing with registers, we use avivotool.

Where does the development happen?

On IRC, #dri-devel seems to serve somewhat as the ATI development centre. This gets fairly well coalesced into The Irregular Radeon Development Companion, however, so you may prefer to just follow that.

Shouldn't all this be on a wiki page somewhere?

Yes, but I have to get up in less than four hours.

Once again, thanks for the support, from all of us. It's been great.