As far as I know GATOS drivers got synced with DRI recently. Then the DRI HEAD branch got sync with DRI Mesa-4.0 branch. Now I read in XFree86 Changelog that DRI (now Mesa-4.x based) got merged into official CVS XFree86,
So it may as well be that you will see the merge of DRM into official kernel very soon. There was also some discussion about the DRM versioning / GATOS DRM versioning, I don't remember the result, but it is being worked on a clean solution for oficial kernel submission. For more info, have a look at GATOS-devel or DRI-devel mailing lists archives. Michal Jason Straight wrote: >Good luck with the gatos modules, they compile fine but the documentation >sucks, I'm not even sure where to put them, as my C experience is with only >piddly GCI and console type apps, I don't know the kernel well enough to >guess that kind of thing. > > > >On Wednesday 27 February 2002 08:26, Mike Diack wrote: > >>XFree86 4.2.0 as in Mdk 8.2, as used with (my) Radeon cards, uses >>a newer version (ati.2) from gatos.sf.net. >> >>This is all well and good with Mandrake's own kernel and X, since >>Mandrake's own kernel includes the very latest 1.2.x Radeon drivers >>from that project. >> >>However the generic kernels, including 2.4.17 and 2.4.18 use the older >>drivers, meaning that X in Mandrake 8.2 WON'T load the 3D DRM section >>i.e. no 3D hardware acceleration. >> >>This means that rolling my own kernel based on the standard kernels >>(as I've done in Mandrake 7.x and 8.0/8.1) is not really an option >>anymore, unless I get the patches and apply them (not yet tried this >>but I presume it'll work well). >> >>Does anyone have answers to either of these questions: >> >>1) Any idea if the X setup in Mandrake 8.2 could be made to work seamlessly >>with either module (either the old 1.1.x driver's in the standard 2.4.x >>kernels) or the newer ones? Or an easy way of switching? >> >>2) Does anyone have visibilty as to how soon the 1.2.x drivers might >>make it into the standard 2.4.x kernels and if so whether they are >>compatible with older (< 4.2.0) versions of XFree86? >> >>Thanks for any answers >>Mike >>newer ones.. >> >>_________________________________________________________________ >>Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com >> >
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