--- On Tue, 7/14/09, Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org> wrote:
> From: Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org>
> Subject: Re: [xwin-discuss] [driver-discuss] I would like to help porting
> To: "ken mays" <maybird1776 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "OpenSolaris X Window System List" <xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org>,
> "Frank Middleton" <f.middleton at apogeect.com>
> Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 12:46 PM
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:25 PM, ken
> mays<maybird1776 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > --- On Tue, 7/14/09, Frank Middleton <f.middleton at apogeect.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Frank Middleton <f.middleton at apogeect.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [xwin-discuss] [driver-discuss] I
> would like to help porting
> >> To: "Ken Mays" <maybird1776 at yahoo.com>,
> "OpenSolaris X Window System List" <xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org>
> >> Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 10:35 AM
> >> On 07/13/09 10:35 AM, Ken Mays
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > The other comment I made was in approaching
> AMD (with
> >> possible Sun's
> >> > support) and seriously talking to them about
> bringing
> >> over the closed
> >> > source AMD Radeon Catalyst display drivers
> for
> >> Solaris/OpenSolaris.
> >>
> >> Good luck! The Open Source Radeon driver is
> currently much,
> >> much better than
> >> the proprietary Catalyst driver and has been since
> Fedora
> >> C3, the last time
> >> it worked properly, at least on my hardware
> (Mobility
> >> 9600). It takes them
> >> so long to come up with revised drivers that they
> are
> >> obsolete by the time
> >> they come out. It would be great if you could get
> AMD to
> >> fix the terrible
> >> Catalyst GUI, rationalize the bizarre aticonfig
> utility,
> >> and actually get
> >> the ATI drivers to work properly again, but your
> market is
> >> smaller than
> >> Linux and they don't seem to be very interested in
> Linux,
> >> so I wouldn't
> >> hold my breath. On the other hand Radeon users
> would have a
> >> huge incentive
> >> to use Open Solaris over Linux if the ATI drivers
> could be
> >> made to work
> >> as well there as they did a few years ago on Linux
> :-)
> >
> > Frank,
> > Grab a copy of this CD:
> > http://www.genunix.org/distributions/indiana/osol-1002-118-x86.iso
> >
> > Things are looking good in ATI drivers - I'm just
> pushing the limits...
> >
> > ~ Ken Mays
>
>
>
> Hi Ken.
> I would like to join Edward what you are talking about?
>
> Mesa's userland DRI or kernel-side's DRM?
> Which "limits are you pushing"?
>
>
> Nice day,
> Martin
Well, if so many people have ATI Radeon cards then 'we' should be able to
review the current state of whether we have what we need to get the work done,
if it already is done, or find out what is needed to implement the existing
solution(s).
I've taken the time to see what "I" needed to do. As for anyone else, I
rather see us become proactive and as we say "just do it". I'm looking at
the kernel-side DRM now that userland is being updated. I'm also
looking at missing files needed for driver compilation (i.e. they are
usually in another package or just missing outright).
I'm talking about us making progress - not complaining. Even if only
making out bug reports on issues with the driver. We've gotten pretty
far getting userland things updated and even getting a radeon driver
from the Sun DRI team.
Just need to pick up the pieces and move on to a more progressive state
if we ever hope to accomplish anything.
~ Ken Mays
