Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:37:12 +0100 From: Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: r300-based boards... Are they now officially a lost cause? Message-ID: <5096EE18.2050005@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <19753.1352066736@tristatelogic.com> References: <19753.1352066736@tristatelogic.com>
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On 11/04/12 23:05, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message<50965A0B.3080104@freebsd.org>, > Niclas Zeising<zeising@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. I think one of the big issues here is that we lack kernel code needed to make gallium work. I haven't looked into the details though. Regards! -- Niclas Zeising
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