Re: glint KMS - how to proceed?

From: Corbin Simpson <mostawesomedude@gmail.com>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Ian Romanick <idr@freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: glint KMS - how to proceed?
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:39:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTim_ekRYETofUKIlaMrdENg-fOI2F4LTNIrzcreU@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1007141955360.19942@casper.infradead.org>

Whoo! I'll put this up on k.org as soon as I can get it working.

~ C.

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:01 PM, James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:03 PM, James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I'm working on modesetting, and I'm kind of unsure how to proceed.
>> >>>
>> >>> My repository is here (ignore all the commit dates):
>> >>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mattst88/glint.git;a=summary
>> >>
>> >> I also did one for the 3Dfx drm driver. Just as a note make sure that your
>> >> glint driver works with the xorg driver. After I had a 3Dfx KMS driver the
>> >> xorg driver no longer worked :-(. I would need to rework the xord driver
>> >> first then be able to submit my KMS driver.
>> >
>> > Is your 3dfx DRM driver available somewhere? It would be interesting to see.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Matt
>>
>> Ping? Can we see your driver?
>
> http://www.infradead.org/~jsimmons/tdfx.diff
>
>        Sorry the driver bit rotted. I used modification to the dri core to get it
> going and be able to do real mode setting via the fbdev layer. Also the
> machine with a AGP bus I had no longer works. I need to get a new machine
> with a AGP bus that has some power behind it. This driver is updated but I
> doubt it will boot since I couldn't test it.
>        The framebuffer management has much to desire since I couldn't
> find any good docs on TTM. So currently I'm using drm_addmap, yuck :-(
> Tho the posted driver has some ttm hooks in it.
>
>
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Corbin Simpson
<MostAwesomeDude@gmail.com>

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