Gallium3D is a new architecture for new Mesa3D driver to transfer
OpenGL commands into GPU rendering instructions. It is a major change
in user level modules and should be easy to be ported to OpenSolaris.
Uros Nedic:
My basic idea was - if Gallium3D is architecture of the future, let
we start write OpenSolaris specific module for Gallium3D, and as time
pass we'll just integrate drives into OpenSolaris, since they are OS
independent, from other communities or hardware vendors. This way
we'll speed up whole process and solve one of major challenges of
OpenSolaris - limited driver support.
By the way, many people on #radeon told me that porting ATI drivers to
OpenSolaris is relatively easy since we have to change intel's drivers
source files, but I received very strong rejection of that opinion from
my team members not regarding idea but regarding statement that it is
easy.
Does my suggestion makes sense?
Uros Nedic
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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:17:38 -0700
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Gallium3D
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]; [email protected]
Corbin Simpson wrote:
I cannot remember at this late hour, but I seem to recall OpenSolaris
not being libdrm-compatible; if that's the case, I'd personally
recommend implementing DRM and KMS, since that will be compatible with
libdrm.
OpenSolaris includes libdrm, but only the Intel DRM module in the kernel
is fully functional. An older version of the ATI R300 DRM module was
ported in the past, but isn't completely working at the moment, and none
of the other DRM modules were ported yet.
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