[oi-dev] The ATI video driver for OI

2017-09-15 Thread Gary Mills
What is required to integrate the ATI video driver with OI? I notice that the ATI video driver is present in Freebsd. It comes from X.org, and supports a long list of AMD/ATI/Radeon GPUs. The Freebsd package is called `xf86-video-ati'. It provides two shared libraries, ati_drv.so and radeon_drv

Re: [oi-dev] The ATI video driver for OI

2017-09-15 Thread Мартин Бохниг via oi-dev
Wow, that was a good one *lol* First you need ATI-KMS to get the modern KMS-only ddx working. While FreeBSD uses a very special method trick to get it working, don't expect *me* to ever in my life waste my time for OI and then someone steals it and distributes it under his name and gets the credi

Re: [oi-dev] The ATI video driver for OI

2017-09-15 Thread Мартин Бохниг via oi-dev
While there aren't many who *could* do this, I see little benefit in why anybody *should* put a couple of years of his life into it. Because that's what it would cost, the minimum price so to say. Graphics drivers and the BSDs https://lwn.net/Articles/616097/ Rather than following FreeBSD's appro