--- Thomas Hellstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Via have, some time ago, released a drm module which seems quite > clean > and a dri / OpenGL implementation which Alan Cox fixed up some time > ago > and which is downloadable from your site. I don't think it has been > ported to be compatible with dri CVS though. > > The thing with the drm module seems to be another story. A lot of > people > are patching their kernels with Via's source and are using it > together > with Via's precompiled via_dri.so. > > Also there is an ongoing project, (unichrome at sourceforge) the goal > of > which is to develop and try to fix up the via X drivers, and submit > relevant patches to the proper code maintainers. Currently we are > focusing on the via XFree86 driver, and an XvMC extension for the HW > Mpeg2 decoder (Which uses DRI / DRM for register / memory mapping > and > resource locking). But some small changes have been made also to the > Via > drm driver (Wait on vblank support). > > At this point it would be very nice to have the via drm module in dri > > CVS, so that it could eventually be included in the kernel. While the > > via_dri.so OpenGL driver might not be there yet, the drm module might > be. > > Please advice on how to proceed and what is needed to make this > happen.
Erdi Chen maintains the cle266/unichrome 3D driver in mesa cvs. You should probably talk to him regarding changes to the 3D driver. For the 2D driver and DRM, no one has yet stepped up to put the latest code in DRI cvs. If you would like to maintain the via driver in DRI cvs, I think you should be able to get cvs access to the DRI/mesa trees so you can get your code in. What do the other DRI develpers think? It would be nice to have the full suite of 3D capable cards with DRI support available in the DRI. Alex > > Best regards > Thomas Hellstr�m > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
