benjamin...@viatech.com wrote: > Jerome, > > This DRM code is kernel space part of a matching Xorg driver that we are > going thru final review to be submitted to xorg. The DRM is frozen but > the user space code needs to fix a few bugs reported by our QA team. > Prior version of xorg driver such as the one at > http://linux.via.com.tw/support/beginDownload.action?eleid=17&fid=381 > doesn't use DRM. But the upcoming one does. > Actually, there are a lot (too much even) DDX : - The VIA driver from linux.via.com.tw which is a stripped down version of another VIA driver with closed source binary only part from viaarena.com - openchrome - possibly unichrome, but I'm not sure it caught up with Chrome9 support. There is certainly room for improvement here, and stopping duplicated work would certainly help.
However, there is no 3D driver for Chrome9 and VIA won't opensource the existing one because of third party code licensing issue. Neither VIA nor openchrome will start a driver on its own, because there is simply not enough manpower on either side to get this huge task done. VIA said the pixel shader documentation will be available publicly soon, and I certainly believe them because this document is already available to some people under NDA, and this is exactly how it was done with the previous doc VIA released. The issue here is to gather enough workforce. If all interested parties team up around one publicly developed Chrome9 3D driver, even if the task is huge, it can probably be done. Regards, Xavier > Thanks, > > Benjamin Pan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerome Glisse [mailto:gli...@freedesktop.org] > Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 5:44 AM > To: Harald Welte > Cc: Dave Airlie; Benjamin Pan (Fremont); Richard Lee; gre...@suse.de; > Bruce Chang; Joseph Chan; dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Patch 0/3] Resubmit VIA Chrome9 DRM via_chrome9 for > upstream > > On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 13:37 +0200, Harald Welte wrote: > [...] >> 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? > > It's hard to review if the interface is sane without knowing what > userspace might need or not. > > Cheers, > Jerome Glisse > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
