On 8/14/05, Philipp Klaus Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some questions about the SiS driver: > > 1) The SiS driver looks different from the other drivers. It doesn't > have a custom tnl_pipeline as all the other drivers except tdfx do. > Was this some old style of writing drivers and all others have already > been converted? > > 2) Has any of the work on DRI for SiS 6326 been merged into DRM or Mesa? >
not yet. Alan Cox had a semi-working version here: http://www.linux.org.uk/~alan/sis6326.tar.gz > 3) Is there any documentation for the SiS 305. I mean, what did the > people that wrote this driver use? Or is it just a 6326 with another > texture unit added so the documentation for the 6326 was used? > The wiki says there is no documentation except that two documents from > UtahGLX which obviously aren't enough for writing a driver. Was this > driver released by SiS or was the chip reverse-engineered? > The driver was initially written by SiS. Eric Anholt cleaned it up and ported it to the current mesa a year or two ago. As I recall SiS never released any databooks for the 3d engine on the 300 series chips. Alex > Philipp > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
