Re: r128/radeon drivers

Definitely still buggy: if I try running Xati on my laptop,
ostensibly identical to Carl Worth's (ATI Technologies Inc Radeon
Mobility M6 LY), the server hangs the graphics chip, as far
as I can tell; it works ok at 16 bits for Carl.
                             - Jim

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 15:07, Eric Anholt 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.
-- 
Jim Gettys <[email protected]>
HP Labs, Cambridge Research Laboratory