[HEADS UP] Experimental 3D HW accel support for Radeon HD
2xxx, 3xxx and 4xxx, 2nd!
Robert Noland
rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Wed Dec 23 05:38:58 UTC 2009
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 07:31 +0200, Alex Kozlov wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:03:15AM +0900, Norikatsu Shigemura wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:26:38 -0600 Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > > As much as I don't want to, I need to request a repo copy of libdrm in
> > > order to keep nouveau working... The bits needed for r600 were added
> > > just after 2.4.12 and the bits that broke nouveau were just before
> > > 2.4.13...
> >
> > Ah, I just see! ABI breakage is building issue, I confirmed:
> >
> > I think simple-fully xf86-video-nouveau updating at the same
> > time. Please see also attached patch. I confirmed that
> > compile is OK. But I don't have any GeForce video cards.
> > So I don't know any problems of updating it in real.
> >
> > And do you have any recommendation of GeForce? e.g. 9800GTX,
> > GT260, ... I'll get one and test. I'm interested in Cuda
> > and nvidia binary driver, too.
> >
> > P.S. libdrm was update to 2.4.17, so I'll update...
> I just tested libdrm 2.4.17 with --enable-radeon-experimental-api
> and mesalib git master. It's work quite good. Well, it worked
> quite good before
I've said it before, but I'll repeat... libdrm_radeon serves no purpose
on FreeBSD and may cause problems. It is only used by TTM/KMS enabled
drivers on linux. If it ever becomes useful... I'll enable it in the
port.
robert.
> "Merge branch 'glsl-pp-rework-2'" (e195eab9093d2a6cf55a42b2e7789c9a381b778)
> but this is separate matter.
>
> So may be enabling libdrm_radeon is not such a bad idea.
>
>
> --
> Adios
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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