Ignore this. I had not seen you already told the URL. we will test it,
and report the result.
yanhua 写道:
> Hi,Teddy:
> We can test it. please give us the new sm712 driver.
> Teddy Wang 写道:
>>     Now our new SM502 and SM712 driver can support latest XServer. But the
>> new SM712 driver doesn't test in the loongson platform.  The new SM502
>> Xserver driver you used in the AIO platform also can support latest Xserver.
>>
>> -----邮件原件-----
>> 发件人: zhangfx [mailto:zhan...@lemote.com] 
>> 发送时间: 2010年3月5日 8:55
>> 收件人: Teddy Wang
>> 抄送: 'yanhua'; 'Daniel Clark'; 'chenj'; '崔春波'; gnewsense-dev@nongnu.org 
>> <mailto:gnewsense-dev@nongnu.org>;
>> 'Bernie Innocenti'
>> 主题: Re: 答复: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: gNewSense-MIPS and SiliconMotion video
>> driver
>>
>> It seems that people are complaining that the performance is much worse 
>> than current one.
>>
>> Teddy Wang wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi, yanhua,
>>>
>>>  Now the Siliconmotion driver in freedesktop port can support higher X
>>> server. It can support SM712 and SM502. You can refer to
>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-siliconmotion/
>>>  
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Teddy Wang 王力强
>>> Silicon Motion, Inc. (China)
>>> Tel: 86 21 65107780 ext.7162
>>> Mobile: 86 13817794114
>>> -----邮件原件-----
>>> 发件人: yanhua [mailto:y...@lemote.com] 
>>> 发送时间: 2010年3月4日 17:30
>>> 收件人: Daniel Clark; Teddy Wang; chenj; 崔春波
>>> 抄送: gnewsense-dev@nongnu.org <mailto:gnewsense-dev@nongnu.org>; Bernie 
>>> Innocenti; zhangfx
>>> 主题: Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: gNewSense-MIPS and SiliconMotion video
>>>     
>> driver
>>   
>>> We only test yeeloong siliconmotion driver for sm712 in x server 1.4.2. 
>>> some work is  needed to  make higher x server work properly.
>>>
>>> High Teddy:
>>>      We need to port siliconmotion  x driver to higher x server, the 
>>> best is the newest x server.  Could you please help to do this work?
>>>
>>> Daniel Clark 写道:
>>>   
>>>     
>>>> On 02/28/2010 11:24 PM, Octavio Rossell wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>       
>>>>> We need to recompile the Silicon Motion Driver into the gNewSense Lemote
>>>>> Yeelong. There is an existing effort in this [1] but the package appears
>>>>> to crash or to not work properly in some reeboot situation.
>>>>>       
>>>>>         
>>>> There are actually several projects / hacks to get X working better in 
>>>> various ways on the yeeloong. I believe all of them suffer from 
>>>> various problems, and most are dead ends (code that would never be 
>>>> accepted against upstream and/or against really old versions of X).
>>>>
>>>> Bernie has a pretty comprehensive overview of the situation as it was 
>>>> a month or two ago posted somewhere; I'll try to gather all the 
>>>> mailing list posts about and put summaries/references to them on a 
>>>> wiki page somewhere if you tell me you would find that to be useful.
>>>>
>>>> The most recent effort I've seen has code (patch file) and discussion 
>>>> here:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>       
>> http://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev/browse_thread/thread/570549e3d78
>>   
>>> 94fef/07ba7be1fd1b15c8?lnk=gst&q=x11#07ba7be1fd1b15c8 
>>>   
>>>     
>>>> Or here if that URL is broken:
>>>>
>>>> http://ur1.ca/obkd
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>       
>>>>> Any help, advice or information will be helpful.
>>>>>       
>>>>>         
>>>> Advice:
>>>>
>>>> (a) Check mailing list archives, monitor and keep up to date at least 
>>>> this mailing list, loongson-dev, #gnewsense-dev irc. Email 
>>>> sysad...@gnu.org <mailto:sysad...@gnu.org> and ask for access to 
>>>> lem...@gnu.org <mailto:lem...@gnu.org> and its archives.
>>>>
>>>> (b) Get on the proper xorg lists / channels.
>>>>
>>>> (c) If you don't have commit access to xorg version control, be sure 
>>>> to form a relationship with someone who does, and is willing to help 
>>>> you get your changes in. Ditto for the upstream Debian packages, 
>>>> unless you have resources to maintain seperate gNS-specific packages 
>>>> until the end of time, and kk is cool with that.
>>>>
>>>> (d) Make sure any development happens in a publicly available version 
>>>> control repository. Tell at least this list and loongson-dev where 
>>>> that is once anything at all useful is there.
>>>>
>>>> (e) Keep in mind that the goal is to be included in upstream xorg; 
>>>> avoid quick hacks that will never be accepted upstream.
>>>>
>>>> (f) If the people working on this on your end are not good at English, 
>>>> see if you can get someone who is to translate the available doc / 
>>>> list threads to them and vice versa.
>>>>
>>>> (g) You may also want to follow Zhang Le's Gentoo work, it seems to be 
>>>> the most advanced loongson2f-optimized GNU/Linux distribution at the 
>>>> moment (i.e. it's actually all compiled with proper mipsel abi, 
>>>> loongson2f optimization, loongson2f bug workarounds). Also 
>>>> collaborating with people working on OpenBSD/Loongson may be useful; 
>>>> we may disagree politically at times, but we use the same upstream 
>>>> xorg code.
>>>>
>>>> (h) You are probably more likely to get technical help regarding the 
>>>> work on loongson-dev or xorg lists.
>>>>
>>>> (i) Some low level info on the SM hardware is at 
>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev/files
>>>>
>>>> (j) If you need to speed up compiles bug me on #gnewsense-dev - I'm 
>>>> close to having an icecc setup done, and should have 10 more 2f boxes 
>>>> to add to the existing 4 in the farm Monday.
>>>>
>>>> Happy Hacking,
>>>>     
>>>>       
>>>   
>>>     
>>   
>
>
> -- 
> 晏华
>
>   


-- 
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