Around 9 o'clock on Sep 19, Jens Owen wrote:
> A word of caution about DRM compatability and Gatos. I'm not certain > how much of the Gatos functionality Keith P. has integrated into > XFree86, but they have been releasing DRM drivers that are not backwards > compatible with old XFree86 releases. I haven't really integrated any of the Gatos code into XFree86. I worked with Kevin Martin to get all of the Radeon chips doing YUV overlays, but that took register settings from the Gatos code along with some additional fixes. The Gatos project code supports significantly more video functionality, but remains somewhat limited in other dimensions, such as card support and video mode selection. Kevin has also been busy integrating 2D code from ATI for the Radeon chips into the XFree86 tree. That's certainly helping a lot of people; I can finally safely restart my X server. The large number of different "Radeon" chips has made universal support for all features very difficult; few developers have access to all of the variations, especially the laptop versions. My understanding is that ATI does make developer AGP boards with laptop chips; it seems like it might be useful to try and get some of those for the DRI developers to do a bit more testing. The other dimension of variation is that we have three separate groups working on various ATI features; XFree86 does 2D graphics, Gatos does video and DRI does 3D graphics. I don't see how we can expect each team to track the other two on an ongoing basis; merging source pools takes time away from other "more interesting" development. > (The XFree86 CVS tree also has that funky red-cursor-with-a-shadow thing, > which I've not yet decided if I like or dis-like ;) Yeah, it's a pretty lame effort at a consistent cursor theme. I haven't every been known for my graphic artistry. Of course, additional sample cursor themes would be really nice to have. Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team HP Cambridge Research Lab ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
