[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [GATOS]ATI chips classes?

[Svante Signell]

Vladimir Dergachev writes:
 > 
 > 
 > On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Svante Signell wrote:
 > 
 > > Hello,
 > >
 > > Can somebody please clarify (or give a pointer to) the similarities
 > > and differences of ATI chips, especially wrt registers and such. I
 > > have currently two cards from ATI, an ATI 3D Rage LT Pro and an Radeon
 > > Mobility M6 LY.
...
 > 
 > rv200 - radeon with built-in Rage Theatre and (at the moment)
 > unknown/non-existent way to access i2c bus. I also think it has 2 DAC
 > so it can drive two monitors simultaneously. (Caveat: notebook chips
 > sometimes have reduced features in order to save power).
 > 
 > r200 is a radeon with a redesigned 3d pipeline and some additional
 > features for overlay scaler. i2c register layout is a little different
 > from plain radeon, but this was documented and currently works.
 > 
 > Note: I might be off on LY chip, check in ati.2/ source for which chips
 > are marked as RV200 to be sure.
 > 
 >                            Vladimir Dergachev
Vladimir,

Thanks for the information about different chip classes. I added some
entries on TV-in,TV-out, dual-head, 3D capabilities and programming
intaerfaces: However, very few entries are filled in so far. Something
of interest missing in the table?

Updated table below:
 Card name             Chip class     3D     TV-in     TV-out    Dual head     Prog.I/F    I2C-bus
 ATI 3D Rage LT Pro    ragepro        Yes    No        Yes       ?             ?            ?
 Rage128               rage128        ?      ?         ?         ?             ?            ?
 Rage128pro            rage128pro     ?      ?         ?         ?             ?            ?
 radeon mobility M6    rv200          Yes?   No        Yes,RT?   ?             ?            ?
 radeon 7500           rv200          Yes?   ?         Yes,RT?   ?             ?            ?
 radeon 8500           r200           Yes?   ?         ?         ?             ?            ?

RT=Rage Theatre

Where do the AIW chips come in and what is a plain radeon?

Thanks,
Svante