Re: r128/radeon drivers

Alex Deucher <agd5f-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xserver
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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]
> 
> 


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