Hi, > For debug the driver, the best way it to use GDB. A graphic tool to debug > the driver based on GDB is DDD. I always use this great tool to debug the > driver. It can check the values of all struct and function values. It is > just like debugging a application. Very powerful!
I will find next week some time to do some testings in this area. > For the link you provided, I gave a look at it. He does a great job to port > the Glint to KMS. Actually, right now I am porting the open source code to > anoterh operating system, I have to port radeon KMS driver too. So I am very > familiar with his project describes. You have seen that Alex gave Matt a lot > of help when he ports the driver. So do I too right now :). > I think for porint the UMS driver to KMS driver, we need to add CRTC, > Encoder and Connector support. We need I2C probe to get EDID information. We > need use TTM memory manager to use VRAM. We also need to port Fbdev > interface. Actually for geode, it is necessary to port it into KMS. The TTM > can solve a lot of memory manage work instead of the static method now. And > 2D accel will be sooner if we implement in kernel instead of user space. And > we can support VGA and DVI connector too in kernel. Actually I am ver > interested to such a work. > It is really a very interesting project, but how to start such a porting process? Thanks, -- Christian Gmeiner, MSc _______________________________________________ Xorg-driver-geode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-geode
