Hear hear... well done Thomas - we're all looking forward to what you're hacking on!
Russ 2009/8/18 Yorick Moko <[email protected]> > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Chris Samuel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> >> > Three cheers for Thomas White! > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > >
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