What is needed to get the ball rolling? I built Mesa 7.7-2009.11.15 from git yesterday which requires a few dependencies not in OSOL or IPS and think we can also have libdrm 2.4.15 is position (wishful?) just as TEST builds for now. I'm willing to work with someone at Sun on this from the community side just to get test builds in place...
~ Ken --- On Mon, 11/16/09, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote: > From: Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> > Subject: Re: [xwin-discuss] Status of ATI4850 3D driver support? > To: "Aaron Zang" <Aaron.Zang at Sun.COM> > Cc: "ken mays" <maybird1776 at yahoo.com>, Edward.Shu at Sun.COM, > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org, dri-discuss at opensolaris.org > Date: Monday, November 16, 2009, 10:44 AM > Since there were no contributors from > any OS'es other than Linux, > the main DRI development stream shifted to working directly > in the > Linux kernel tree a while ago, instead of maintaining a > separate > tree that required more work to merge back > in.???(This is one of > the reasons I've always encouraged more involvement in the > upstream > code base - they've been discussing recently if libdrm > should follow > a similar path, and so far, I'm the only person to even > mention that > DRI is still used on non-Linux platforms, but since I don't > contribute > code to DRI, and Sun has never contributed code to DRI, our > opinion > isn't worth anywhere near as much as that of active > contributors.) > > ??? -Alan Coopersmith-? ? ? > ? ???alan.coopersmith at sun.com > ?????Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X > Window System Engineering > > > Aaron Zang wrote: > > Ken, > > Thanks for the information. Yes, we had already found > that. > > Previously we focused on the DRI project under > freedesktop, > > but the major development done on DRI was not in > there. > > > > Regards, > > Aaron > > > > On 11/14/09 23:30, ken mays wrote: > >> The Radeon DRI drivers work for the most part on > all OpenGL games and demos if you use the Mesa 7.6.x branch. > > >> > >> The ATI Radeon 4850/4870 are reliable graphics > hardware for testing with Mesa 7.6.x. > >> > >> Use this as a guidebook: http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonProgram > >> > >> Ken Mays > >> Blastwave.org > >> Atlanta, GA (USA) > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>? ? ??? > > >
