r300-based boards... Are they now officially a lost cause?

Ronald F. Guilmette rfg at tristatelogic.com
Sun Nov 4 22:05:40 UTC 2012


In message <50965A0B.3080104 at freebsd.org>, 
Niclas Zeising <zeising at freebsd.org> wrote:

>>>> So, um, if I understand correctly "Mesa" currently contains:
>>>>
>>>>         1)  code to implement an API called "Mesa3d", and...
>>>>
>>>>         2)  code to implement a rather different API called "Gallium3D"
>>>> ...
>>> ...  As far as I know, this API has always been unsupported on
>>> FreeBSD (this might be completely wrong though), so the chances are you
>>> are not using it.
>>
>> By "this API" I assume that you mean "Gallium", correct?
>Yes.

So that has never been supported on FreeBSD??

I'm a little surprised because from what little I read about it, the Gallium
approach is rather better.


Regards,
rfg


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