There is already the radeon-rewrite driver. Regards, Edward.
2009/7/18 Uros Nedic <urosn at live.com>: > > My basic idea was - if Gallium3D is architecture of the future, let > we start write OpenSolaris specific module for Gallium3D, and as time > pass we'll just integrate drives into OpenSolaris, since they are OS > independent, from other communities or hardware vendors. This way > we'll speed up whole process and solve one of major challenges of > OpenSolaris - limited driver support. > > By the way, many people on #radeon told me that porting ATI drivers to > OpenSolaris is relatively easy since we have to change intel's drivers > source files, but I received very strong rejection of that opinion from > my team members not regarding idea but regarding statement that it is > easy. > > Does my suggestion makes sense? > > > Uros Nedic > > > ---------------------------------------- >> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:17:38 -0700 >> From: Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM >> Subject: Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Gallium3D >> To: mostawesomedude at gmail.com >> CC: urosn at live.com; xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org; driver-discuss at >> opensolaris.org; mesa3d-dev at lists.sourceforge.net >> >> Corbin Simpson wrote: >>> I cannot remember at this late hour, but I seem to recall OpenSolaris >>> not being libdrm-compatible; if that's the case, I'd personally >>> recommend implementing DRM and KMS, since that will be compatible with >>> libdrm. >> >> OpenSolaris includes libdrm, but only the Intel DRM module in the kernel >> is fully functional. An older version of the ATI R300 DRM module was >> ported in the past, but isn't completely working at the moment, and none >> of the other DRM modules were ported yet. >> >> -- >> -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com >> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > More than messages?check out the rest of the Windows Live?. > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/ > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org > -- All Documents adhered to the ISO/IEC 26300 standard file format for electronic office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents from this email address. The author does not take responsibility of the recipients inability to read international standards and who use proprietary products such as MS Office. See: http://www.openoffice.org/ Edward O'Callaghan. -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EdwardOcallaghan http://moonshine.opn4.org/ http://www.pcbsd.org/
