Status of ATI video acceleration support + freebsd port code

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <
lenzi.sergio at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> > Why from scratch? Let's do fork of ums code (and forexamle call him
> ums-ng)
> > and piecemeal upgrade him to functionality of kms. I am sure that there
> > will be supporters of my ideas. People must have choice ums vs kms like
> as
> > linux vs freebsd!
>
> From my point of view, it is just a matter of $$$$,
>
> I  (and some others) are funding a company to support FreeBSD,
> in some months (I hope) there will be $$$$ to pay for FreeBSD code
> and of course donate the code to FreeBSD.org...
>
> I do not have an idea, but, do you people can tell how much does it
> would costs to write UMS or KMS code for FreeBSD???  I think I have
> the money, I just must know how much is needed..
>
> I really do not care if the code goes in the kernel or in user mode,
> As far as I can test, running Linux vs FreeBSD in the notebooks I tested
> the FreeBSD is far more reliable, faster, than Linux. The only problem
> with
> FreeBSD is the drivers for the radeon and intel video chips...
>
> We will need also code for the wifi, camera, and sleep/wakeup...
>
> The idea is to sell notebooks to a closed market, about 100.000 units...
> each notebooks can sell for US$400  (4gb of ram, 320Gb of disk) 14inch
> screen.
> no brand name...
>
> Operating system FreeBSD9 or 10, gnome 2.32.
>
> OPPINIONS please????
>



FreeBSD on a notebook as installed is a wonderful idea .


There is project as completed

"GEM, KMS, and DRI Support for Intel Drivers"

in page :

http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/projects



This means that FreeBSD Foundation has expertise about
such projects .


You may prepare a specification for you needs and submit to
FreeBSD Foundation for a possible cost estimation ( if they prepare ,
I do not know ) with a possible support by you about costs to develop
software parts for your needs .




There are also works on AMD GPU :

https://wiki.freebsd.org/AMD_GPU
https://github.com/dumbbell/freebsd
https://github.com/dumbbell


You may supply a more coordinated support for accelerated development .


I have read in a page that FreeBSD Foundation is planning to recruit
additional full time
developers . You may also talk to them about those issues .



Thank you very much .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk