kern/60474: Temporary fix for DRM support for Radeon 9200

[Vladimir Dergachev]

The following reply was made to PR kern/60474; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Vladimir Dergachev <volodya at mindspring.com>
To: Eric Anholt <eta at lclark.edu>
Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx at aldan.algebra.com>,
	gnats <freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.ORG>, dotz at irc.pl,
	DRI <dri-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: kern/60474: Temporary fix for DRM support for Radeon 9200
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:22:31 -0400 (EDT)

 On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Eric Anholt wrote:
 
 > On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 11:17, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
 >> Hi, Eric!
 >>
 >> Can this be assigned back to you? I have another pair of PCI IDs,
 >> BTW, and I am sure, there are people with shiny new Radeon-9800 out
 >> there too... Yours,
 >
 > This is not a bug.  The DRM does not support r300-series hardware.
 > Among other things, trying to initialize it with r100 or r200 microcode
 > will probably make it explode in your face.  Now, if this was part of an
 > attempt at getting http://r300.sf.net/ stuff working on FreeBSD, that'd
 > be another thing :)
 
 http://r300.sf.net/ already works on BSD. You just need to pass an option 
 to r300_demo to find the BSD analog of /dev/dri/card0 (see README).
 
                       best
 
                          Vladimir Dergachev
 
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