Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 13:00:05 +0300 From: Sergey Jamy <jamy023@gmail.com> To: archibald <archibald@ethernull.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of ATI video acceleration support? Message-ID: <CAHKs5YjQhn%2B76PAUz1zcec02t6D3g7ddH-cdsTCz2GnTyoQDrQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6f8f042d2c194e1d18668ce2fa36a9e7@ethernull.org> References: <53471.1367887450@server1.tristatelogic.com> <CAHKs5YizFidbG=52SBiD5ctvQubyKf-gWH%2BM-Qz-PcSR_Hjtpw@mail.gmail.com> <5188C489.3040808@dumbbell.fr> <CAHKs5YipvnuVtTG6Qbm9A5P9h=qPPK6jw56DSb5o3_vX19Jr8A@mail.gmail.com> <6f8f042d2c194e1d18668ce2fa36a9e7@ethernull.org>
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2013/5/7 archibald <archibald@ethernull.org> > Radeon X.org means that radeon driver that works with X.org. Essentially > the radeon driver no longer supports UMS (user modesetting), and only > supports KMS. Consequently, to use up to date versions of the radeon > driver, FreeBSD must have kernel modesetting for AMD cards. AMD has no > official support for FreeBSD. > Fix: X.Org working on driver pimitives. So why can cheat new X.Org, as we cheat linux apps throw linux emulation layer. > Nothing is preventing the FreeBSD project from writing their own radeon > driver, but given the amount of code that would need to be written (and the > lack of developers working on FreeBSD compared to Linux), it's much easier > to port the Linux code than write it all from scratch. > Why from scratch? Let's do fork of ums code (and forexamle call him ums-ng) and piecemeal upgrade him to functionality of kms. I am sure that there will be supporters of my ideas. People must have choice ums vs kms like as linux vs freebsd!
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