Gallium3D is a new architecture for new Mesa3D driver to transfer OpenGL commands into GPU rendering instructions. It is a major change in user level modules and should be easy to be ported to OpenSolaris. Uros Nedic: > 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: Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM >> Subject: Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Gallium3D >> To: mostawesomedude at gmail.com >> CC: urosn at live.com; xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org; driver-discuss at >> opensolaris.org; mesa3d-dev at lists.sourceforge.net >> >> 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- alan.coopersmith at sun.com >> 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 > driver-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss >
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