updating drm

[Robert Noland]

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 14:01 -0400, Coleman Kane wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 01:01 +0400, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote:
> > Coleman Kane пишет:
> > > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 19:54 +0400, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote:
> > >> Hello!
> > >>
> > >> I wonder is there any plans to update drm in either CURRENT or STABLE 
> > >> from MESA tree?
> > >>
> > > 
> > > I believe so, but only after the stuff in the MESA tree is stable. From
> > > what I can tell, there is still work going into developing it more
> > > (integrating VBLANK and other changes). There will probably be a merge
> > > once the BSD part of the tree is stable again.
> > > 
> > > I've also got at least one outstanding bug report open that needs either
> > > fixing in drm/bsd-core or in xf86-video-ati.
> > > 
> > 
> > I think that without importing drm onto, at least, CURRENT, there will 
> > be a few chances to receive bug-reports to be worked with ;)
> > 
> 
> The bug report above is one that I've submitted, and we're currently
> working on resolving it.
> 
> At least two combined changes happened at the same time to the BSD drm
> code (vblank-rework as well as r5xx/r6xx support). I've been trying to
> get the latter one working, but in the process I think I might have
> gotten bit by the former. The drm code has almost always been
> continually developed in the mesa/drm git tree at freedesktop.org, with
> snapshots being merged into the FreeBSD tree as new features and changes
> settle.
> 
> I am confident that when more of these outstanding issues are resolved,
> the resulting code will get merged. A likely result of just merging
> everything now might be a sudden breakage of DRI for numerous R1xx,
> R2xx, R3xx, and R4xx users who already have good, working DRI support.
> It would be better if the deluge of PR's was limited to the users of
> R5xx and above cards, who right now don't have DRI support. I am also
> confident that this will happen real-soon-now.
> 
> That said, anybody can see/get the current development trees by
> visiting:
>       * http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=mesa/drm.git;a=summary

FWIW, the current HEAD has a couple of locking issues...  I have fixes
that have not been pushed to fdo yet, though they should be soon.

robert.

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