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> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:27:13 +0800
> From: Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
> Subject: Re: [xwin-discuss] Xorg/ATI drivers
> To: urosn at live.com
> CC: xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org
>
> Uros Nedic wrote:
>>>From Xorg/radeon wiki page
>>
>> (snip)
>> R100/R200 (Radeon 7000 ? Radeon 9250) and R300/R400/R500 (Radeon 9500 ?
>> Radeon X1950)
>> * class chips: 2D: accelerated (EXA), stable
>> * XVideo: accelerated and tear free, stable
>> * 3D: accelerated, stable
>> (...)
>>
>> If it says that 3D is supported, why then we do not have this support for
>> OSOL?
>
> Accelerated 3D support requires the radeon DRM module in the kernel.
> That module in our kernel only supports R300 and older chipsets, and
> is disabled in current builds due to conflicts with changes required
> for the Intel DRM module.
Does it mean that DRM module for OSOL is completely disabled or just
module for ATI cards? What is your sugesstion? How we could solve this
conflict?
>
>> I would like to ask SUN's engineers if it is possible to organize some week
>> long
>> school about X Window System in Europe, so we could attend it and learn
>> something? It could be partially sponsored by SUN and partially by
>> attendants.
>> Nothing expensive, just tutorials, and discussions.
>
> I don't know how we would go about organizing something like that - I'm
> not aware of any part of Sun doing anything like that before.
Sun has been organizing JavaOne conference. Recently, started to organize
CommunityOne East/West/North. OpenSolaris developer conference is approaching
in Dresden at the end of October, I think. Why Sun would not start one
week conference dedicated only to X Window System, but with more condensed
schedule and with more intense learning/discussion that it was at JavaOne.
Of course, with much less glamor to be cost effective. There are plenty of
places in Europe (Central, Eastern, SouthEastern), where it could be done
with very small budget. Here, in Belgrade, Serbia, hotels and conference rooms
are very cheap but quality is at the same level as in other parts of Europe.
If conference in Portland is expensive for us, then we could do it here.
I propose that Sun cover expenses for some of Community members, because they
will contribute much more code in return in the future. Personally, I'm the
first one who want to do such thing because I'll get the knowledge and practice
for free and Sun will get plenty of cheap code (more than they spent for
covering my education about X Window System, for sure).
This is just my opinion/proposal.
Uros
>
> --
> -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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