Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] R200 t_vertex conversion

2004-04-17 Thread Keith Whitwell
Ian Romanick wrote: This is what I have done so far to convert the R200 driver to use t_vertex. It is only a conversion for SW TCL, and it's not quite complete. I've managed to clean up all the crashes that I could find, but I've only tested with gears, geartrain, and tunnel. There are some

Re: [Dri-devel] DRI/Xfree86 Merge

2004-04-17 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 01:18:49AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 00:00, Alan Hourihane wrote: I could merge in XFree86 4.3.99.902 which is before the license change Are you sure? AFAIK David applied the new license (or at least a similarly controversial one) to some

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] Convert r128 driver in linux kernel 2.6 to use userland firmware loading

2004-04-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Sad, 2004-04-17 at 06:44, Ryan Underwood wrote: 3) Neither of these is ok, must go into non-free because binary-only firmware doesnt meet DFSG (no source) regardless of its license. Either whole driver must go into non-free, or a crippled driver is provided in main and a userspace loader

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] Convert r128 driver in linux kernel 2.6 to use userland firmware loading

2004-04-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 07:44, Ryan Underwood wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 03:03:04AM +0200, Michel Dnzer wrote: It allows for the microcode to be updated without replacing the kernel, which is not a bad thing anyway. But changing the microcode would change the driver-chip interface

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] R200 t_vertex conversion

2004-04-17 Thread Keith Whitwell
Ian Romanick wrote: This is what I have done so far to convert the R200 driver to use t_vertex. It is only a conversion for SW TCL, and it's not quite complete. I've managed to clean up all the crashes that I could find, but I've only tested with gears, geartrain, and tunnel. There are some

[Dri-devel] Build problems on FreeBSD

2004-04-17 Thread Adam K Kirchhoff
I can't get a current version of the DRI cvs to build on FreeBSD any more: cd ./config/makedepend make -f Makefile.proto bootstrap Makefile.proto, line 30: Need an operator Makefile.proto, line 81: Need an operator make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue *** Error code 1 Stop in

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] Convert r128 driver in linux kernel 2.6 to use userland firmware loading

2004-04-17 Thread Ryan Underwood
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 09:36:24AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: This is the answer I was given by lawyers. The analogy they use is an interesting but sensible one. If I add a chapter to a book it is clearly a derivative work, if I bundle the one work with a second pamphlet containing the chapter

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] Convert r128 driver in linux kernel 2.6 to use userland firmware loading

2004-04-17 Thread Ryan Underwood
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 03:33:16PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: I don't think such a complicated scheme is needed? Just encode the microcode version in the filename and try to load any supported version, from most to least preferred? I think that's what I meant. Point being, have the kernel

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] Convert r128 driver in linux kernel 2.6 to use userland firmware loading

2004-04-17 Thread Mike Mestnik
--- Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 23:02, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 22:00, Nathanael Nerode wrote: This is a diff for drivers/char/drm to make r128 use userland-loadable firmware. Sigh, is this really

Re: [Dri-devel] Build problems on FreeBSD

2004-04-17 Thread Adam K Kirchhoff
Never mind Stupid mistake on my part. Adam On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: I can't get a current version of the DRI cvs to build on FreeBSD any more: cd ./config/makedepend make -f Makefile.proto bootstrap Makefile.proto, line 30: Need an operator Makefile.proto, line

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] Convert r128 driver in linux kernel 2.6 to use userland firmware loading

2004-04-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Sad, 2004-04-17 at 19:40, Ryan Underwood wrote: Of course, if the legal advice you refer to was specifically aimed at the firmware scenario, where you have a blob of who-knows-what that does not execute on the host embedded into a driver binary, then I'm not one to argue with that. It was

Re: [Dri-devel] [PATCH] Convert r128 driver in linux kernel 2.6 to use userland firmware loading

2004-04-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 20:46, Ryan Underwood wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 03:33:16PM +0200, Michel Dnzer wrote: I don't think such a complicated scheme is needed? Just encode the microcode version in the filename and try to load any supported version, from most to least preferred? I

Re: [Dri-devel] Makefiles in the drm module

2004-04-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 16:19, Keith Whitwell wrote: Michel Dnzer wrote: Does anything speak against repo-moving Makefile.{bsd,linux} to Makefile? I can't think of any reason not to. Turns out a simple repo-move doesn't work for Makefile.linux as it contains some Makefile juggling hacks.

[Dri-devel] Questions about current status of DRI

2004-04-17 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
Hi guys, I've been busy for a while, but summer is approaching with the possibility of some spare time, so I have several questions about current status of DRI: 1. I could not find a link to the newer ViewCVS interface on the website - does it exist ? 2. Is anyone working on accelerated 3d

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Finally looking at the DRI SMP issues - Yahooo! (fps 30-31 fps up)!

2004-04-17 Thread bill
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 11:35:14AM -0700, Ian Romanick wrote: The r200 is the clear bottleneck, now What we need next is the TMU3 patch...;-) I'm still trying to work through the t_vertex conversion. That should help some too. Of course, Quake3 only uses 2 TMUs anyway. I'll post what I

Re: [Dri-devel] Questions about current status of DRI

2004-04-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 03:19, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: 1. I could not find a link to the newer ViewCVS interface on the website - does it exist ? http://dri.freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/dri/ 2. Is anyone working on accelerated 3d for newer Radeons (R300, etc) ? Not that I know of.

Re: [Dri-devel] Questions about current status of DRI

2004-04-17 Thread ajax
On Saturday 17 April 2004 20:19, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: 4. Are there any examples of user-space applications accessing DRM, the same way Mesa driver does, but (hopefully) simpler ? I might have some success in figuring out CP sequences and present the result as a

Re: [Dri-devel] DRI/Xfree86 Merge

2004-04-17 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 07:54, Alan Hourihane wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 01:18:49AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 00:00, Alan Hourihane wrote: I could merge in XFree86 4.3.99.902 which is before the license change Are you sure? AFAIK David applied the new

Re: [Dri-devel] Questions about current status of DRI

2004-04-17 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dnzer wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 03:19, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: 1. I could not find a link to the newer ViewCVS interface on the website - does it exist ? http://dri.freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/dri/ Thank you ! 3. Can anyone

Re: [Dri-devel] Questions about current status of DRI

2004-04-17 Thread Dave Airlie
The infamous CP microcode is needed. AFAIK, Benjamin Herrenschmidt got it from ATI. the BeOS driver has some r300 microcode in its sources... http://www.bebits.com/appver/2938 download the r5 source at look at CPMicroCode.h in the file... no idea what it is of course it might be 2d only or

Re: [Dri-devel] Questions about current status of DRI

2004-04-17 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Dave Airlie wrote: The infamous CP microcode is needed. AFAIK, Benjamin Herrenschmidt got it from ATI. the BeOS driver has some r300 microcode in its sources... http://www.bebits.com/appver/2938 download the r5 source at look at CPMicroCode.h in the file... no