On Oct 05, 07 00:22:09 +0200, Syren Baran wrote: > I personaly dont know how the ATI architecture differs that a kernel > module might be unnecesarry. Fglrx also uses a kernel module.
It has a completely programmable command processor (Tom's Hardware has a pretty good overview in this case), and all memory accesses (from the hardware side) seem to be virtual, so it might have a MMU. As long as the command processor cannot be programmed from user space, this scenario can be made secure for complete user space programming. I have *no* idea ATM, whether this works with the current DRI architecture or not, so this is probably something for later improvements, but not for the beginning. > > Whether Gallium is an option or not is also not decided yet. But that > > could be changed later on as well. But until some 3D sees the light of > > the day, it's probably decided by the community. > > I´ll invest a couple of hours now and then. Been a while since i last > did low level gfx card stuff and 3D, but i hope i´ll be able to > contribute a bit more than just some pci-ids. Cool :) Thanks, but don't follow that road too far ATM. It'll be quite a while until we will see 3D docs. At least that's my estimation. CU Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ R & D www.mshopf.de _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
