Re: EXA support

Michael <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Nov 2015 12:38:25 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc
Organization	The NetBSD Foundation
Message-ID	<20151127123825.4292ae97@blackbush>

Hello,

On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 15:48:29 +0100
Tobias Nygren <[email protected]> wrote:

> > - all ATI variants already have EXA support
> 
> I use the version 6 ati driver on sparc64 with xorg-server 1.17 but I
> noticed it is very much slower compared to when used with XAA & the old
> X server.
> Lots of nvidia DRM fixes for ARM went in recently. Can we perhaps
> leverage this work to get radeonkmsfb to work on sparc64? It would be
> really neat if we could switch to xf86-video-ati-7.x.

Last time I checked the kernel part was full of horrible x86-isms. Not
sure if it even supports rv100. But then again, that was a while ago
and I didn't really have time for it anyway.
So by all means, have at it.

have fun
Michael