Does drm/dri currently work on PPC? (SUCCESS!)

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 10/25/12 23:55, matt wrote:
>> It was working without DRM "out-of-the-box". Of course I've made a mess
>> trying different versions of both Xorg and the radeon driver. I'm in the
>> process of getting back to the working config so I can be sure any test
>> changes work/don't work.
>>
>> OpenBSD's mpi@ apparently did a lot recently over there getting DRM to
>> work on the G4 mini. We already had about half of the commits I see at
>> freshbsd, in one way or another...Our rmb/wmb() I think has had PPC
>> barriers since earlier this year? He did #define __BIG_ENDIAN, which
>> apparently was a big deal for the drm code (it's ifdef'd in a couple
>> places), not sure if we are already doing that.
>> If someone has a G4 radeon mini they could test to see if drm works for
>> them or not, to rule out AGP issues (I guess they are PCI?).
>>
>> I'm not sure how the OpenBSD attachment process works vs ours, some of
>> the other commits of note were related to passing the BAR and memory
>> regions from the vgapci to drm. When I kldload drm after compiling it,
>> it doesn't do anything...but if I kldload radeon.ko, it recognizes agp
>> memory and being related to vgapci at the correct pci address...I'm not
>> sure if we "are there" or not. I also didn't have DRM on OpenBSD either.
>>
>> I think if radeon had drm on *any* big-endian platform it should rule
>> out endian issues in drm or radeon. Not sure if this is the case, I
>> guess macppc would be the most likely.
>>
>> Matt
> So I removed WITH_NEW_XORG, deinstalled a ton of ports, and reinstalled
> Xorg. I rebuild drm with __BIG_ENDIAN defined (not sure if this
> matters). I previously put a lot of WERROR= and NO_WERROR= into various
> drm makefiles to get gcc to shut up about unused return values. X
> -configure worked, and the xorg log indicates the drm device was
> successfully opened and I have drm on PPC.
> mesa-demos is marked broken for PPC, haven't tried glxinfo or glxgears yet.
>
> The good news is it works!
> The bad news:
> -Cannot switch back to syscons, screen gets corrupted then the system
> hard locks
> -WITH_NEW_XORG breaks it somehow
>
> Thanks to mpi at openbsd.org, Justin & Nathan!
>
> Matt
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Great to hear! I checked in some code to define __BIG_ENDIAN if needed 
in -CURRENT's drm (Linux uses a different number of underscores than we 
do for perverse reasons).
-Nathan