Re: r128/radeon drivers
Alex Deucher <agd5f-/[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver |
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Let me know what you need help with. I'll do what I can depending on my free time. Unforunately I don't understand the model of kdrive yet so I'm still getting up to speed. I don't see much in terms of crtc and mode handling. how are you setting modes right now? vesa? Alex --- Eric Anholt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 10:32, Alex Deucher wrote: > > Very nice... > > > > if we are starting fresh wouldn't it make sense to use the cce/cp > for > > everything rather than MMIO? that would avoid having to wait for > idle > > and such when switching between MMIO and CCE. If we have a kernel > > component, it shouldn't be be an issue to use the CCE. > > > > Also, are the kdrive drivers going to be a model for the new > drivers or > > a interim step on the way to the "new driver model" we've been > > discussing? > > CCE/CP requires the DRM, or something providing the same services as > the > DRM does. I'm working on that, through implementing the DRI for > kdrive, > with the first step being a non-GLX but DRM-using ati driver. I was > working on a DRM-using r128 driver, but now that there's "ati," I'll > try > to merge it to ati and actually get it working (I realized what was > probably a bug this morning, now to go check...) > > Also on the list is figuring out how to do xv using the 3d engine > (rather than overlays). Lower on my list, but somebody ought to do > it. > > -- > Eric Anholt [email protected] > http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ [email protected] > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree