From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 5 18:25:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: x11@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98DAC106566B; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:25:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnoland@2hip.net) Received: from gizmo.2hip.net (gizmo.2hip.net [64.74.207.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C788FC14; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:25:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rnoland@2hip.net) Received: from [192.168.166.46] ([70.168.41.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by gizmo.2hip.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m55IPLGp041584 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:25:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rnoland@2hip.net) From: Robert Noland To: Coleman Kane In-Reply-To: <1212688916.1904.19.camel@localhost> References: <48456950.8060507@ksu.ru> <1212511997.15220.25.camel@localhost> <484702B1.6080402@ksu.ru> <1212688916.1904.19.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Organization: 2Hip Networks Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:25:15 -0400 Message-Id: <1212690315.57447.24.camel@squirrel.corp.cox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on gizmo.2hip.net Cc: x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: updating drm X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:25:24 -0000 On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 14:01 -0400, Coleman Kane wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 01:01 +0400, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote: > > Coleman Kane пишет: > > > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 19:54 +0400, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote: > > >> Hello! > > >> > > >> I wonder is there any plans to update drm in either CURRENT or STABLE > > >> from MESA tree? > > >> > > > > > > I believe so, but only after the stuff in the MESA tree is stable. From > > > what I can tell, there is still work going into developing it more > > > (integrating VBLANK and other changes). There will probably be a merge > > > once the BSD part of the tree is stable again. > > > > > > I've also got at least one outstanding bug report open that needs either > > > fixing in drm/bsd-core or in xf86-video-ati. > > > > > > > I think that without importing drm onto, at least, CURRENT, there will > > be a few chances to receive bug-reports to be worked with ;) > > > > The bug report above is one that I've submitted, and we're currently > working on resolving it. > > At least two combined changes happened at the same time to the BSD drm > code (vblank-rework as well as r5xx/r6xx support). I've been trying to > get the latter one working, but in the process I think I might have > gotten bit by the former. The drm code has almost always been > continually developed in the mesa/drm git tree at freedesktop.org, with > snapshots being merged into the FreeBSD tree as new features and changes > settle. > > I am confident that when more of these outstanding issues are resolved, > the resulting code will get merged. A likely result of just merging > everything now might be a sudden breakage of DRI for numerous R1xx, > R2xx, R3xx, and R4xx users who already have good, working DRI support. > It would be better if the deluge of PR's was limited to the users of > R5xx and above cards, who right now don't have DRI support. I am also > confident that this will happen real-soon-now. > > That said, anybody can see/get the current development trees by > visiting: > * http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=mesa/drm.git;a=summary FWIW, the current HEAD has a couple of locking issues... I have fixes that have not been pushed to fdo yet, though they should be soon. robert. -- Robert Noland 2Hip Networks