From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 7 09:08:36 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F4AF45A for ; Tue, 7 May 2013 09:08:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jean-sebastien.pedron@dumbbell.fr) Received: from mail.made4.biz (ns25270.ovh.net [91.121.29.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D0CA48 for ; Tue, 7 May 2013 09:08:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [46.255.176.2] (helo=viking.yzserv.com) by mail.made4.biz with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.80.1 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1UZdsw-000PfX-Av; Tue, 07 May 2013 11:08:34 +0200 Message-ID: <5188C489.3040808@dumbbell.fr> Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 11:08:25 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-S=E9bastien_P=E9dron?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130404 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sergey Jamy Subject: Re: Status of ATI video acceleration support? References: <53471.1367887450@server1.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="----enig2JQMKISJIBRJAAITWFGNM" Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 09:08:36 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) ------enig2JQMKISJIBRJAAITWFGNM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 07.05.2013 10:34, Sergey Jamy wrote: >>> With the help of Konstantin Belousov, J.R. Oldroyd and several tester= s, >>> I'm working on the port of the kernel-side driver from Linux to FreeB= SD. >=20 > Why are you clonning linux? Why we can't leave most code in user space?= For > what me kernel panic from the error in yours "kms"? What license of cod= e > which you porting from linux? Whether there can be conflicts of license= s? The drivers are released under the MIT license, therefore, there's no conflict. > Maybe we can make daemon which will in-between layer from driver to xor= g, > but he will be work in USER SPACE? I think there is no need to hurry u= p so, > we now have a working graphical environment, if there is a wish to 3d > acceleration - so go to the linux or windows. Yes, there's a need to hurry up: for instance, the Radeon X.Org driver dropped support for non-KMS mode in last August. It means newer cards are barely supported, more likely not supported at all. And we don't talk about 3D acceleration only here: this includes modern features such as GPGPU (which targets high-end needs too, not only desktops) but also simply detecting the correct resolution of the plugged-in monitor. Without this, users would be stuck with the VESA driver. --=20 Jean-S=E9bastien P=E9dron ------enig2JQMKISJIBRJAAITWFGNM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlGIxJIACgkQa+xGJsFYOlP3ogCfc/Mu3jX5H0oJDiWsnU4L+Thu YhYAmgIzTdVet7aOsnMaMYTkrrxZf5mF =4/zF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------enig2JQMKISJIBRJAAITWFGNM--