On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:28:53PM -0800, Jon Smirl wrote:
> --- Otto Solares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Jon, should i convert r200 in Mesa-newtree to use SET_VERSION and then
> > GET_UNIQUE or there is more work to be done to eliminate root privs, is
> > backwards compability an issue too?
> 
> The copy in bk://mesa3d.bkbits.net/jonsmirl is already converted. But there is
> more to the problem. After the removal of the framebuffer driver I need to
> rebuild all of the mode setting code in userland. I'm in the process of doing
> that.
> 
> All of this is needed and is implemented in varying degrees.
> 1) Device driver knows how to attach to PCI ID
> 2) Generic loader program can open DRI device and get name of matching DSO.
> (this needs to be fixed for radeon/r200 split)
> 3) r200 DSO is loaded
> 4) r200 DSO needs PCI ID, FB/MMIO start/length

Good, i thought your idea was to remove fbdev dependency.

> 5) Current mode of screen needs to be retrived to determine X/Y size of screen
> (not working yet, this means EDID support has to work too.)

How can i interface with your changes?, currently i open the fbdev,
mmap fb and mmio region, set desired fbdev mode, load r200 dso, pull hooks and
everything is ok from there.  The only thing i dislike with the current aproach
is that we need root privs and dri_util is not a clean API.

I have everything working, including input (from new input layer), sound
(via openal and alsa) and graphics (DRI standalone mesa from Mesa-newtree).

My concentration is on the opengl desktop now, the problems i see is the lack
of overlays and pbuffer/fbconfigs support.

-solca



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