Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 11:08:25 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-S=E9bastien_P=E9dron?= <jean-sebastien.pedron@dumbbell.fr> To: Sergey Jamy <jamy023@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of ATI video acceleration support? Message-ID: <5188C489.3040808@dumbbell.fr> In-Reply-To: <CAHKs5YizFidbG=52SBiD5ctvQubyKf-gWH%2BM-Qz-PcSR_Hjtpw@mail.gmail.com> References: <53471.1367887450@server1.tristatelogic.com> <CAHKs5YizFidbG=52SBiD5ctvQubyKf-gWH%2BM-Qz-PcSR_Hjtpw@mail.gmail.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) ------enig2JQMKISJIBRJAAITWFGNM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 07.05.2013 10:34, Sergey Jamy wrote: >>> With the help of Konstantin Belousov, J.R. Oldroyd and several tester= s, >>> I'm working on the port of the kernel-side driver from Linux to FreeB= SD. >=20 > Why are you clonning linux? Why we can't leave most code in user space?= For > what me kernel panic from the error in yours "kms"? What license of cod= e > which you porting from linux? Whether there can be conflicts of license= s? The drivers are released under the MIT license, therefore, there's no conflict. > Maybe we can make daemon which will in-between layer from driver to xor= g, > but he will be work in USER SPACE? I think there is no need to hurry u= p so, > we now have a working graphical environment, if there is a wish to 3d > acceleration - so go to the linux or windows. Yes, there's a need to hurry up: for instance, the Radeon X.Org driver dropped support for non-KMS mode in last August. It means newer cards are barely supported, more likely not supported at all. And we don't talk about 3D acceleration only here: this includes modern features such as GPGPU (which targets high-end needs too, not only desktops) but also simply detecting the correct resolution of the plugged-in monitor. Without this, users would be stuck with the VESA driver. --=20 Jean-S=E9bastien P=E9dron ------enig2JQMKISJIBRJAAITWFGNM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlGIxJIACgkQa+xGJsFYOlP3ogCfc/Mu3jX5H0oJDiWsnU4L+Thu YhYAmgIzTdVet7aOsnMaMYTkrrxZf5mF =4/zF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------enig2JQMKISJIBRJAAITWFGNM--
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