My basic idea was - if Gallium3D is architecture of the future, let we start write OpenSolaris specific module for Gallium3D, and as time pass we'll just integrate drives into OpenSolaris, since they are OS independent, from other communities or hardware vendors. This way we'll speed up whole process and solve one of major challenges of OpenSolaris - limited driver support.
By the way, many people on #radeon told me that porting ATI drivers to OpenSolaris is relatively easy since we have to change intel's drivers source files, but I received very strong rejection of that opinion from my team members not regarding idea but regarding statement that it is easy. Does my suggestion makes sense? Uros Nedic ---------------------------------------- > Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:17:38 -0700 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Gallium3D > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected] > > Corbin Simpson wrote: >> I cannot remember at this late hour, but I seem to recall OpenSolaris >> not being libdrm-compatible; if that's the case, I'd personally >> recommend implementing DRM and KMS, since that will be compatible with >> libdrm. > > OpenSolaris includes libdrm, but only the Intel DRM module in the kernel > is fully functional. An older version of the ATI R300 DRM module was > ported in the past, but isn't completely working at the moment, and none > of the other DRM modules were ported yet. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > _________________________________________________________________ More than messages–check out the rest of the Windows Live™. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/ _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
