Uros Nedic wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:58:11 -0700
>> From: maybird1776 at yahoo.com
>> To: xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org
>> Subject: Re: [xwin-discuss] libdrm 2.6.12 SDK for OpenSolaris
>>
>> The Sun X Engineering team has updated to libdrm 2.4.12 in the snv_122
>> consolidation.
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>>
> Still need the kernel side DRM update and other tweaks to get great
> 2D/3D acceleration for ATI Radeon X1300 - Radeon 1950 XTX cards,
> Mobility R5xxx chips, FirePro 2250, and FireGL 52xx/72xx cards.
>> ~ KM
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> This mail has been posted on xwin-discuss mailing list. As
> both of us see the sentence - 'Still need the kernel side DRM
> update...'. Does it mean that full 3D GPU enabled acceleration
> we won't see in b122? If so when we could expect this to
> happen?
The kernel side happens in ON, so that update won't appear in the X
changelogs - I was hoping the DRI team who works on that would respond
with some idea about their schedule, or even a polite "We're not working
on it, don't wait" message, since they know that. (As far as I know
it's not planned for anytime soon, but I don't know when it is planned for.)
> I already started learning ATI's GPU R3xx/R5xx series architecture
> to be able to create driver on my own. Also, I started to learn
> Gallium3D architecture because it is future of driver development
> model. Also, I hoped that someone already did drivers now.
Why would you need to learn to create a driver instead of just working
on porting the existing driver to the OpenSolaris kernel? The current
DRI/DRM kernel modules were ports from the open source community project,
not new drivers written just for OpenSolaris.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
