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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 14:46:49 -0400
From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 06:01:39AM -0700, Dave wrote:
> 
> At this time, I'm not really that forthcoming about going to current.
> Actually, I tried it, and maybe on the wrong day, because I had
> compilation issues enough to make me a little nervous about following a
> thread like current at this point in time...
> 
> Might I ask, when are we going to see the Radeons / DRI support in the
> RELEASE branch?

Today is a good day to switch to -current.  Yesterday was not.
Or wait for 5.1-RELEASE, due within a month.
I'm using Radeon DRI on a 7500 under -current SMP.  Works great.

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