Teddy, in this list: http://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev/browse_thread/thread/570549e3d7894fef/07ba7be1fd1b15c8
there was a proposed patch to the current version: http://loongson-dev.googlegroups.com/attach/c8ccd2a1370f5927/xf86-video-siliconmotion-1.7.3-fix-loongson.patch It is possible to study this to add the proposed changes into the oficial driver? Teddy Wang escribió: > 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; > '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; 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 and ask for access to 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, >>> >> >> > -- __________________________________________________________ | , , | | / \ | | ((__-^^-,-^^-__)) Octavio Rossell Tabet | | `-_---' `---_-' octa...@gnu.org.ve | | `--|o` 'o|--' http://octavio.gnu.org.ve | | \ ` / irc.gnu.org.ve #gnu | | .: :. 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