El Jue 06 Dic 2001 17:53, escribiste: > On Thursday 06 December 2001 01:16, Punt Runt wrote: > > i've been checking dri.sourceforge.net almost daily > > since i've discovered that the problem (below) is > > related to lack of real mach64 support. can you > > please update us on the status of this project? > > should we hope for any support, or is it just not > > going to happen? > > It's in progress. Problem is that the person working on the critical piece > (me) is having to deal with a pressing personal issue so it's delayed right > at the moment.
Frank, if you are too busy, I could try to help you with your DMA work (if you think that the work can be safely splitted). > > A sitrep for all that haven't been following (and for those that have): > > Manuel Tiera migrated the old codebase to something relatively close to the > head of the CVS tree. This code didn't work very well because the DMA test > would hang your machine up hard. If you didn't load the DRM module, you > could get some accelerated 3D support because Gareth Hughes had coded in a > kludge in the Mesa driver to verify that the code there was working > properly- this is in the form of direct register writes for the 3D > operations. It won't take too much to migrate the placeholder code to the > real thing once we have the DRM layer working correctly. > > After getting that going, Manuel and others tinkered with the code to find > out what gave with the DMA pass. Manuel found the problem which was some > register setup in the 2D driver layer that broke pretty much everything for > the DMA engine use. Right now, I am working on getting the DRM layer's DMA > scheme working- I'm trying to come up with a workable buffer management > algorithm, etc. as the RagePRO does things differently than most other > cards done to date. I've got a good idea where I need to go with it, but > my time's been rather limited of late because of varying things coming up > (Like playing the "scramble to find work" game as my employer's not making > payroll...). To be continued. ;-) BTW. | sed 's/Tiera/Teira/g' _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
