On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Harald Welte<haraldwe...@viatech.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 07:09:06PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:36 PM, <brucech...@via.com.tw> wrote: >> > To whom it may ceoncern: >> > The following 3 patches are the DRM kernel module that support VIA >> > Chorme9 GFX chipset. They are based on 2.6.31-rc3. Please kindly help to >> > integrate into kernel. >> > >> >> Is there a userspace, or available documentation to write a userspace >> to use this code. > > Dear David, the situation is still like it was some time ago: >
Is there an open source DDX to set this up? > > 4) VIA does not have the resources to write an entirely new 3D driver for > Chrome9, especially since future products contain a different, incompatible > GPU. I think it's much more useful to focus the resources at getting things > "right" for those future products. > > So, as you can see, the situation is far from being perfect. However, it > could > also be much worse. > > I would be the first person to argue in favour of having some FOSS userspace > code against this DRM kernel driver - but I can also understand the practical > constraints. Given that the technical issues (32bit ioctl compat, ...) can be > adressed, I would hope the driver can get merged. > > So far I was not aware that there is an absolute precondition of existing 3D > FOSS > userspace code to get a DRM driver merged. Yes, we all want it. But is it a > strong > requirement? We definitely need something to exercise the interface, how do we ever know if we break this interface directly or indirectly. The code as-is is of no use to the Linux kernel or open source communities. We cannot ship this in a distro and have it do anything. So the question is why would you want this upstream? if you need a binary DDX and a binary 3D driver why don't you just keep shipping this out of tree? Dave. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
