Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-28 Thread James Cameron
On 28/11/2009, at 11:18 AM, Tiago Marques wrote:
 Well... it seems VIA has people working on 3D support but no one seems
 to want to review the code...
 
 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=62692B81D079DA49BA9287A3CDF6B41C9FD818%40exchtp12.taipei.via.com.twforum_name=dri-devel

It doesn't look like there is anyone who is intentionally avoiding review of 
the code, but in that mailing list there has not yet been any clear merge of 
the code.  Can we test this code in our kernel on the olpc-2.6 repository?  Is 
it sensible to try to merge it with our 2.6.31 source?  Is this something you 
can test for us?
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Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-28 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/11/28 Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com:
 Well... it seems VIA has people working on 3D support but no one seems
 to want to review the code...

 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=62692B81D079DA49BA9287A3CDF6B41C9FD818%40exchtp12.taipei.via.com.twforum_name=dri-devel

I don't see any indication that this code is for VX855, neither that
this has anything to do with 3D.

Daniel
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Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-28 Thread Tiago Marques
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 8:34 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
 On 28/11/2009, at 11:18 AM, Tiago Marques wrote:
 Well... it seems VIA has people working on 3D support but no one seems
 to want to review the code...

 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=62692B81D079DA49BA9287A3CDF6B41C9FD818%40exchtp12.taipei.via.com.twforum_name=dri-devel

 It doesn't look like there is anyone who is intentionally avoiding review of 
 the code, but in that mailing list there has not yet been any clear merge of 
 the code.  Can we test this code in our kernel on the olpc-2.6 repository?  
 Is it sensible to try to merge it with our 2.6.31 source?  Is this something 
 you can test for us?

I can test it out, no problem. The only issue is that this seems more
important for support of the actual 3D driver than the actual 3D
driver. Don't know how far VIA is pertaining the work on the 3D level.
IMHO, it is quite sad that they're paying an employee to get the code
merged and the person is apparently being ignored. The lack of time by
the maintainer certainly doesn't help Linux out on hardware support...

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Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-28 Thread Tiago Marques
Hi Daniel,

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
 2009/11/28 Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com:
 Well... it seems VIA has people working on 3D support but no one seems
 to want to review the code...

 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=62692B81D079DA49BA9287A3CDF6B41C9FD818%40exchtp12.taipei.via.com.twforum_name=dri-devel

 I don't see any indication that this code is for VX855, neither that
 this has anything to do with 3D.

It seems to be DRM code necessary to support 3D in the actual driver.
Am I wrong?

Best regards


 Daniel

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Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-28 Thread Chris Ball
Hi,

IMHO, it is quite sad that they're paying an employee to get the
code merged and the person is apparently being ignored. The lack
of time by the maintainer certainly doesn't help Linux out on
hardware support...

As I understand it, the only use for that particular DRM code is to
enable Via's closed-source 3D blob to work.  As such, it's being
(correctly) mostly ignored by the kernel people, whose policy is not
to accept patches that merely provide hooks for closed-source modules.

There are a few attempts to develop an open-source 3D driver for Via
chips, but it's unclear which type of DRM they'll end up using.  If
they use the DRM provided by this patch, it would then make sense to
merge it.

(DRM = Direct Rendering Manager, not that other thing.)

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Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-28 Thread Daniel Drake
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 15:51 +, Tiago Marques wrote:
 It seems to be DRM code necessary to support 3D in the actual driver.
 Am I wrong?

It looks like small fixes to a standard video playback acceleration path
to me. The mails even talk about an MPEG application that prompted the
patches.

Also it seems to be a patch against the unichrome DRM driver, whereas a
separate DRM driver is needed for the Chrome9 hardware on the VX855.

Daniel


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Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-28 Thread Chris Ball
Hi,

Also it seems to be a patch against the unichrome DRM driver,
whereas a separate DRM driver is needed for the Chrome9 hardware
on the VX855.

Here's the submitted chrome9 DRM, and discussion:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=62692b81d079da49ba9287a3cdf6b41c9fd...@exchtp12.taipei.via.com.tw

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Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-28 Thread Tiago Marques
Ok... my bad.
I'm all for the GPL'd driver but if they could provide a working
driver in the mean time, the better. The best Linux 3D driver out
there is Nvidia's one, which is a blob but works. Intel has been
putting some efforts into the open source driver but it is nothing
more than a disaster right now. Each time they update the driver
something important breaks.

As far as the kernel team at the OLPC knows, what is missing to
support the VX855? The 3D driver and the DRM patches to the kernel?
From the thread it seems to me it wasn't accepted. Unless it was at a
later date.

Best regards,
Tiago


On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote:
 Hi,

    Also it seems to be a patch against the unichrome DRM driver,
    whereas a separate DRM driver is needed for the Chrome9 hardware
    on the VX855.

 Here's the submitted chrome9 DRM, and discussion:

 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=62692b81d079da49ba9287a3cdf6b41c9fd...@exchtp12.taipei.via.com.tw

 - Chris.
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Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-27 Thread Ahmed MANSOUR
Actually it's a problem with the openchrome driver as it does not
provide 3D acceleration or Xvideo support
for the VIA VX855 chip.Although it is possible to implement it but,
need knowledge of the driver programming.


2009/11/27 Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de:
 On 26.11.2009, at 08:50, Zarro Boogs per Child wrote:

 #6147: A graphics accelerator

 3D graphics acceleration is something we provide in Gen 1.5, and intend on
 providing in future generations as well.

 --
 Ticket URL: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6147#comment:3

 Yay!

 However, it doesn't work yet. glxinfo says the XO is using the Mesa Software 
 Rasterizer.

 I opened #9759, but what are the chances to actually get accelerated 3D?

 - Bert -


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Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-27 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
 #6147: A graphics accelerator

 3D graphics acceleration is something we provide in Gen 1.5,
 and intend on providing in future generations as well.

I have difficulty with the intent behind closing #6147 as 'fixed'.

For me, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.  F11-on-XO-1.5 
(build 46) gives me 3+ fps in glxgears.  F11-on-XO-1 (build 9) gives 
me 2- fps in glxgears.  Is that justification enough for saying that 
3D graphics acceleration is something we provide in Gen 1.5 ??

Let me suggest that #6147 not be considered closed until the day 
when a noticeable improvement in graphics acceleration can be 
demonstrated on the XO-1.5.

mikus

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Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-27 Thread James Cameron
On 28/11/2009, at 6:07 AM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
 #6147: A graphics accelerator
 
 3D graphics acceleration is something we provide in Gen 1.5,
 and intend on providing in future generations as well.
 
 I have difficulty with the intent behind closing #6147 as 'fixed'.

#6147 was attached to the hardware component, and since the hardware now has 
the feature, the ticket can be closed.  The solution satisfies the ticket 
description.

Yes, it could have been kept open and retriaged, but for what value?  Lower 
ticket numbers don't mean higher priority or anything.  The old comments in the 
ticket delay understanding by anybody new to it.

We have a new ticket #9579 for the software work for 3D acceleration feature 
support.

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Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-27 Thread Tiago Marques
Well... it seems VIA has people working on 3D support but no one seems
to want to review the code...

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=62692B81D079DA49BA9287A3CDF6B41C9FD818%40exchtp12.taipei.via.com.twforum_name=dri-devel

Best regards,
Tiago

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Ahmed MANSOUR 911fr...@gmail.com wrote:
 Actually it's a problem with the openchrome driver as it does not
 provide 3D acceleration or Xvideo support
 for the VIA VX855 chip.Although it is possible to implement it but,
 need knowledge of the driver programming.


 2009/11/27 Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de:
 On 26.11.2009, at 08:50, Zarro Boogs per Child wrote:

 #6147: A graphics accelerator

 3D graphics acceleration is something we provide in Gen 1.5, and intend on
 providing in future generations as well.

 --
 Ticket URL: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6147#comment:3

 Yay!

 However, it doesn't work yet. glxinfo says the XO is using the Mesa Software 
 Rasterizer.

 I opened #9759, but what are the chances to actually get accelerated 3D?

 - Bert -


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Re: 3D acceleration

2009-11-27 Thread Tiago Marques
Pinged dri-devel to see if any progress has been made towards
accepting the patches.

Best regards

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote:
 Well... it seems VIA has people working on 3D support but no one seems
 to want to review the code...

 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=62692B81D079DA49BA9287A3CDF6B41C9FD818%40exchtp12.taipei.via.com.twforum_name=dri-devel

 Best regards,
 Tiago

 On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Ahmed MANSOUR 911fr...@gmail.com wrote:
 Actually it's a problem with the openchrome driver as it does not
 provide 3D acceleration or Xvideo support
 for the VIA VX855 chip.Although it is possible to implement it but,
 need knowledge of the driver programming.


 2009/11/27 Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de:
 On 26.11.2009, at 08:50, Zarro Boogs per Child wrote:

 #6147: A graphics accelerator

 3D graphics acceleration is something we provide in Gen 1.5, and intend on
 providing in future generations as well.

 --
 Ticket URL: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6147#comment:3

 Yay!

 However, it doesn't work yet. glxinfo says the XO is using the Mesa 
 Software Rasterizer.

 I opened #9759, but what are the chances to actually get accelerated 3D?

 - Bert -


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