--- Thomas Hellstr�m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alex Deucher wrote: > >> --- 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. > > > > Yes, there's certainly no need for splinter projects. If you're > doing > > work on > > DRI or Mesa, let us know who's active & we can get them access. > It's > > ususally > > nice to see some patches first, but if there's an active project > elsewhere > > that we can check out & get a feel for, we might be able to skip > that > > step. > > > > Keith > > > > Hi! > > Thanks for your replies. > > First I'd like to stress that the unichrome project is by no means > thought > of as a 'replacement' project for any of the components involved. It > was a > way for us to coordinate some development going by different persons > on > the via forum with a common goal to enhance the via drivers, and to > ensure > code quality and stability before it is submitted as patches to > XFree86 or > dri. > > What's important for us currently is to have an _official_ drm module > available in dri cvs to base our Xfree86 2d XvMC component > development on, > so there won't be different customized via drm modules circling > around as > kernel patches. The ideal thing for us would be if there was a > maintainer > of, or contact person for, the via drm module within the dri project > to > whom we could send patches for review/possible inclusion.
There is no maintainer for the via drm or 2d driver that I know of. If you guys are doing the work, feel free to take on that role. It looks like you guys have made good progress on your website: http://unichrome.sourceforge.net/ > > Anyway, I'll try to wrap up what we have (latest Via official drm > code > with some minor mods) and put together a patch against current dri > cvs > ( programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel ) > post it, and hopefully get some feedback on how to proceed. Sounds good. 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
