On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:59:00 -0500, Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:18:26 -0600, Ryan Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've been looking at Xgl and mesa-solo recently and my interest has been
> > piqued.  I have been hacking on the mga drivers for a while now.  What
> > do we need to do to the mga framebuffer, DRM, DRI, and/or XAA drivers in
> > order for the whole mga stack to be ready for Xgl and/or mesa-solo?  How
> > does the VGA/VESA console get along with this (i.e., is a framebuffer
> > console a prerequisite?)  What about restoring a sane state in the case
> > of a software failure (either to the console or to the X server)?
> 
> Look at how mesa-solo and the radeon driver work together. Right now
> mesa-solo uses the radeon fbdev driver for mode setting.  Dave Airlie
> can probably give you hints on how to test that everything is working
> right in an mga mesa-solo.
> 
> No on has tried getting XGL running on top of mesa-solo. I don't know
> of any obvious reason why it shouldn't work other than no one has
> tried doing it yet. First check out that your mga mesa-solo is
> running, there are test programs in the mesa tree for this. Then try
> to get XGL running on top. This may require some work to XGL but post
> your issues to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists and someone 
> will
> answer.
> 
> There is code in the X server for frequency scaling on radeon chips.
> This is probably something that should be moved down into the radeon
> fbdev or DRM drivers.
> 

Benh has dynamic clock code in radeonfb too.

Alex

> --
> Jon Smirl
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>


-------------------------------------------------------
SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide
Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users.
Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now.
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click
--
_______________________________________________
Dri-devel mailing list
Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel

Reply via email to