umm, well I am still reading the hardware docs. There is nothing more I can say.
Regards,
Edward.
2009/7/15 Uros Nedic <urosn at live.com>:
>
> Excellent! My idea is same. Let SUN say clearly what they plan
> to do regarding ATI drivers so we could organize ourselves to
> *try* to do the rest. Or maybe SUN is interested in some kind of
> cooperation with community - few engineers from SUN and we.
> This way we could build also some part of ATI driver base. Also,
> SUN could build some part alone.
>
> Uros Nedic
>
>> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:39:01 -0700
>> From: maybird1776 at yahoo.com
>> Subject: RE: [xwin-discuss] [driver-discuss] I would like to help porting
>> To: urosn at live.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On Wed, 7/15/09, Uros Nedic ?wrote:
>>
>>> From: Uros Nedic
>>> Subject: RE: [xwin-discuss] [driver-discuss] I would like to help porting
>>> To: maybird1776 at yahoo.com
>>> Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 8:27 AM
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> #yiv839247739 .hmmessage P
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>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Ken,
>>>
>>> Do you want to say that we shouldn't organize ourselves
>>> regarding implementation of ATI drivers to OSOL
>>> because SUN'll do that or stop our contribution or
>>> what?
>>>
>>
>> Well, the thing to do is know whom at Sun you can talk to.
>>
>>> I also want to help in this project, since in my country
>>> ATI is very popular graphic card. Much more than
>>> nVidia.
>>>
>>> If you you already did some significant contributions to
>>> OSOL and you plan that ATI DRI/DRM support
>>> starts in next two or three nevada builds, then I it looks
>>> like we shouldn't do anything more than wait
>>> few weeks :).
>>>
>>> Uros
>>>
>>
>> My point is to only say - know where you are today and where you want to be
>> in a few weeks. I wanted Sun to clarify what they are or not doing with
>> the ATI drivers or supporting pieces so at least people can understand what
>> they need to do or not do.
>>
>>
>>
>>>> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:45:54 -0700
>>>> From: maybird1776 at yahoo.com
>>>> To: xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [xwin-discuss] [driver-discuss] I would
>>> like to help porting
>>>>
>>>> See:
>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/2006-August/000296.html
>>>>
>>>> The conversation goes back a few years...
>>>>
>>>> Well, the devil is in the details. I'll also add
>>> in mentioning "complaining" I was
>>>> addressing that "I" had complained in the
>>> past about not having updated ATI Radeon 2D drivers, OpenGL
>>> 1.5-3.1, or Xorg 7.x - but Sun did deliver although with
>>> limited resources which may have taken longer than expected
>>> - but they did it. So, complaining can be a good thing if
>>> done constructively - no??
>>>>
>>>> The other part is just getting organized on whom will
>>> work on what. Alan mentioned before that Sun Xorg group is
>>> mainly the 'implementors' and 'maintainers'
>>> of Xorg/XSun on Sun. Now the SPARC group is a part of the
>>> Sun Xorg team. All of the video driver implementation and
>>> maintenance falls within reach of this one group.
>>>>
>>>> So, this gets into what team other than the Sun Xorg
>>> team is involved in any type
>>>> of FreeDesktop.org-related projects (like the Sun DRI
>>> team, Gallium3D integration team, etc)???
>>>>
>>>> Martin has spent a few years doing a lot of work on
>>> video driver support on SPARC/x86 machines as well as other
>>> people I can mention. My stance now is just getting the
>>> Radeon 3D driver working (again) under the newer OSOL
>>> snv_118-120 distros to support pre-R600 based ATI video
>>> cards for now. Since there are Sun-internal teams
>>> 'still' working on this and the DRI/DRM framework
>>> then this will help whomever is involved porting their piece
>>> into the solution or supporting their own OSOL
>>> distribution(s) - like Belenix.
>>>>
>>>> ~ Ken Mays
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