Thank you Minskey for the detailed status update, I respect your radeon work! A pity Sun lost you.
Regards, Martin On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:37 PM, minskey guo<minskey.guo at gmail.com> wrote: > > Sorry, I left Sun about one year ago, and I am no longer involved in ATI > DRI project for Solaris. If anybody is interested in this project, he or > she can take over it, just ingore me :) > > Most likely, Solaris's DRM will be changed to accept GEM as Linux > does now since the code comes from Intel and should have no license > issue ( I am not sure about this. Forgive me if I am wrong ), AFAIK, > some engineers from Intel & Sun are working on GEM & KMS (?) > (certainly, Intel graphics only ) enabling, they already got a prototype > and can work on some Intel graphics hardware with much better > performance. > > Unless you don't follow GEM and develop another grahpics memory > manager framework and enable ATI driver to work under this framework, > probably, you also need to enable Intel driver to work under the same > framework as well (from PSARC 's point of view :) ), you will have to > wait for GEM integration before starting ATI driver developing (note that > I mean developing instead of porting from Linux). > > > > -minskey > > > > > > > > > Uros Nedic ??: >> >> Ecellent!. First lets introduce each other. I'm Uros from Belgrade, >> Serbia, >> you are Martin from Ukraine, who is third? I spoke with Alan Coopersmith >> and he told me we should claim for some available documentation from >> os.o DRI community - http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/dri/leaders/. >> Right contact person is : minskey (minskey guo) >> <http://www.opensolaris.org/viewProfile.jspa?id=14833>. After we got this >> we'll read it and start our small project. I suggest that all three of us >> work >> jontly and ask minskey for help. After he finish helping us, we'll >> continue >> alone after we finish our project. >> >> How it sounds? >> >> Uros >> >> > Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:54:34 +0200 >> > Subject: Re: [driver-discuss] I would like to help porting DRI to >> > OpenSolaris. >> > From: martin at martux.org >> > To: urosn at live.com >> > CC: driver-discuss at opensolaris.org; xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > >> > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Martin Bochnig<martin at martux.org> >> > wrote: >> > > 2009/7/10 Uros Nedic <urosn at live.com>: >> > >> Do you want to join me or want to be my mentor? >> > >> >> > >> Uros >> > > >> > > >> > > As I repeatedly proposed this long long ago, which answer fits best? >> > > Back then nobody had ever shown interest. >> > > >> > > >> > > %m >> > >> > >> > >> > Luckily there is finally growing community interest in this: >> > Independently from you and - btw - before you, a 3rd coding enthusiast >> > has proposed exactly this on the xwin-discuss alias, earlier today. >> > See EdwardOC's message. So, if you want we 2 join you. It doesn't >> > matter to me, who is whose "mentor" ;-) >> > >> > So start teaching, please. >> > I never claimed to know everything. >> > All I said was, that I have a tarball with my diffs from circa a year >> > ago. >> > Somewhere. Let me look it up. >> > >> > p.s. I put xwin into CC >> > >> > rgds. ?????? ?????? >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> check out the rest of the Windows Live?. More than mail?Windows Live? goes >> way beyond your inbox. More than messages >> <http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> driver-discuss mailing list >> driver-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss >> > >
