Linux 2.6.32 obtains R600 Kernel Mode settings

The Open Source ATI R600 garphics 3D graphics card driver has been submitted to the kernel in Linux kernel 2.6.32 may be included in the next year's tree. "David Ellie has entered the future GIT tree of DRM, which is a new type of code that will delay anything to the Linux 2.6.32 kernel, once the merge window is open. Most importantly, this new digital copyright management code provides kernel mode support, R600 first-class hardware settings, and 3D support. "
The announcement regarding this pull was made on David Airlie's blog.

This announcement withdrew from the blog on David elley.
The ATI R600 series graphics cards will likely become the most powerful 3D graphics cards with an available open source driver to date.

ATI R600 series graphics cards will likely become the most powerful 3D graphics available with open source driver date cards.
The graphics processing unit codenamed R600 is the foundation of the Radeon HD 2000/3000 series and the FireGL 2007 series video cards developed by ATI Technologies.

The graphic processing unit code R600 is the foundation of the Radeon HD 2000/3000 series and the FireGL 2007 series developed by ATI Video Card Technology.
This announcement does not appear to include support for the more recent R700.

This announcement does not seem to include support for the latest R700.
R500 and earlier GPUs already have reverse-engineered open source 3D drivers for Linux.

And the early R500 graphics processor has a three-dimensional open-source Linux driver for reverse engineering.

Kernel mode setting means moving the mode setting functionality from video drivers from the userspace X drivers into the kernel.

Kernel Mode setting means that the mobile mode sets the function of the video driver from the kernel to the user space X.
While this may seem arbitrary and uninteresting for end-users, this isn' t exactly the case.

Although this seems a little disconnected and ultimately boring, this is not the case.
Kernel mode setting enables a much richer boot experience, less problems with sleep/wake cycles, and improved VT switching.

Kernel Mode settings allow more experience, Boot, less problematic sleep/wake-up cycles, and improve room rate switching.

Kernel mode setting requires drivers to be altered to support it, and currently a number of open source drivers have been altered to support it.

Kernel Mode settings require drivers to be changed to support it. Currently, open-source drivers have changed some support for it.
Proprietary drivers do not support it.

The proprietary driver does not support it.