Just to clarify for those that want to play with this, you'll need to build the r6xx-r7xx-support branches of the drm and radeonhd. The drm is also required for r600_demo.
Alex On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Alex Deucher <[email protected]> wrote: > It's finally here! r6xx-r7xx-support branches of the drm and > xf86-video-radeonhd. > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/log/?h=r6xx-r7xx-support > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd/log/?h=r6xx-r7xx-support > > After months of hard work we are finally able to push out initial drm > and accel code for r6xx and r7xx chipsets. We couldn't have done this > without a lot of hard work from a lot of people. Of particular note: > > Matthias Hopf - implementing r600_demo as a test program to get the hw > up and running > Dave Airlie - initial r6xx drm implementation > John Bridgman - sheparding along the IP review process > > This release is mostly targeted at developers as the code is not > really ready for regular use. The accompanying r6xx/r7xx register > spec is still in IP review and will be released soon. > > Current drm status: > - only indirect ioctl currently implemented (for EXA/Xv) > - mesa support will require additional work > > Current EXA/Xv status: > - lack of direction blitter makes overlapping copy blits difficult. > current code breaks down overlapping blits into line by line blits of > non-overlapping regions. running xcompmgr -a is highly recommended for > decent performance > - a8 support has issues > - planar Xv shader implemented, but not working properly yet > - missing Xv shader support for packed formats. should be easy to > adapt the planar Xv shader once that is working > - composite mask support is currently broken. I suspect the interpolater > setup. > - depth 16 is untested > > Alex > _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
