Phoronix reports that AMD will drop Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 Catalyst support soon

In what will certainly be controversial and disappointing to some Radeon Linux desktop users, AMD will soon announce that they will effectively be discontinuing support for several Radeon product families from their proprietary Catalyst driver. After that point, for future Linux distribution updates, the open-source Radeon Linux driver will be your only option for accelerated graphics. This is likely happening with the Windows Catalyst driver too, but at least there they have a better-maintained legacy driver process.

  AMD To Drop Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 Catalyst Support