2010/1/23 "C. Bergström" <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > One of our (PathScale) engineers is planning to port nouveau and all > dependencies to OpenSolaris. We have two routes we can take and would > like some feedback from the community. > > 1) There's an existing drm without ttm that was done by the FreeBSD > developers. Would anyone from the fbsd team like to go over some of the > trouble they've had in porting ttm? > > 2) The engineer doing the work is much more familiar with Intel GEM and > has said the following (which I don't honestly know if it's true or not) > a. Intel GEM surely will continue to be supported > b. It's already available on OpenSolaris > c. More portable than ttm > d. GEM doesn't have support for nvidia cards and is missing some > important features. (For OpenSolaris he says those can be added and is > less effort than porting ttm) > e. Is probably better performance compared to ttm >
How do you plan to handle "real" video memory in GEM? Will you add support for it in the GEM common code? Stephane _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
