On 2016-06-27 at 21:03 Xiao Jia wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm in need of a kernel for performance isolation in real-time > rendering scenarios. An option I have in mind is to port the AMD > Radeon Linux driver to Akaros. I have no idea at this moment what is > involved, but I have an impression that it could be a huge effort with > lot of code. Are you going to be interested in merging such a thing?
Hi Xiao - Nice to hear from you. That sounds like it could be a huge effort, though we've ported other large Linux drivers in the past. We might need some additional video infrastructure, which might involve digging into how Plan 9 did their video drivers. All in all, if you do as good of a job on it as you did the mlx4 driver, I'll gladly merge it. I probably can't test it, as my radeon mostly died a couple weeks ago, but that's fine. Are you more interested in using the video card as a display device or as a source of computing cores? One of the things I've had in the back of my head was that we'll eventually want to let apps access the GPU if only for the raw computational power. Having some sort of video driver port would probably help with that. Barret -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akaros" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
