On Maw, 2004-03-16 at 22:32, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> 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.

Just for 4.3.x, not CVS that is correct. I didn't have time to do more
than make it work in Fedora basically.

> 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).

Cool stuff.  I'm glad people went off and did all the stuff I wanted to
but ran out of time for (and more..)

> 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. 

The kernel code for 2.4 is in the Fedora tree. I don't know of 2.6
kernel code but if there is that would be great to know.

I'm all for this from Thomas contributions to the XFree fixing of the
via driver.





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