> Thanks for reply minskey. > > From your perspective, when do you expect that ON consolidation will > change > in order to integrate GEM? > You can check with kan.liang at intel.com.
> Regarding developing ATI drivers, you think it is not possible just to > change > Intel's? Technically, it is possible. As you know, solaris currently hasn't a graphics memory manager for Intel or ATI cards at all, however, solaris does support 3D hardware acceleration for some of them. And Linux ATI drm kernel driver supports both GEM & TTM. In the first phase, you can ignore memory manager, and focus on GPU instruction streams handling only. Frankly speaking, if porting from Linux, it is not difficult, but GPL license is not compatible with CDDL. Does FreeBSD support new ATI cards ? If yes, you can borrow code from FreeBSD. Ken Mays ??: > Thanks, Minskey, for the update. > > Seriously, I think we should focus on supporting the Xorg ATI driver > development team > in driver development and porting of the code. > Mesa3D & DDX drivers are in userland, so, > The other comment I made was in approaching AMD (with possible Sun's support) > and seriously talking to them about bringing over the closed source AMD > Radeon Catalyst display drivers for Solaris/OpenSolaris. > I remember that somebody said that the driver consists of millions of lines of code. I guess that includes another implementation of OpenGL :) - minskey
