I haven't seen anyone else post about this yet, but this looks really neat!
(Found via Planet Ubuntu) http://losca.blogspot.com/2009/08/kernel-mode-setting-kms-on-neo.html # Forget AMD, Intel, NVIDIA! Thomas White's incredible work with Neo # FreeRunner's puny graphics dec...accelerator, Smedia Glamo 3362 is starting # to bear fruits. [...] # # The camera shot on the right, running KMS-enabled X.org driver for the glamo # chip on my Debian installation (visible software matchbox-window-manager, # fbpanel, zhone), is a bit optimistic looking since Zhone happens to draw # correctly. A lot of the drawing is not yet synced correctly, which shows as # all text and images in eg. GTK applications being garbled. But as little as # two days ago one couldn't yet much launch applications without X crashing, # so the newest commits by Thomas were a big step forwards. I'm using Debian, # and he's not, so I try to find time to help in debugging even though I # really can't much help with the driver code. # # The driver is not just one piece of code, but consists of a kernel drm # driver (direct rendering manager) using GEM, libdrm support for the kernel # driver and finally the X.org driver supporting these other components and # offering buzz-words like DRI2. There is also a beginning of a Mesa 3D # driver, though it is so far just a skeleton driver since the 2D/KMS/EXA/DRM # parts are what should be done first before dwelling into the OpenGL realm. [...] Even has an excerpt from the X servers log file with: # (WW) Glamo(0): EXA hardware acceleration initialising # (II) EXA(0): Driver allocated offscreen pixmaps # (II) EXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations: # (II) Solid # (II) Copy # (II) Glamo(0): Initialized EXA acceleration Thomas's own blog is here: http://www.bitwiz.org.uk/ cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP
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