Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:08:45 -0700 From: matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com> To: Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does drm/dri currently work on PPC? Message-ID: <508B6C5D.9010500@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHSQbTCdFy19Dt8nWQ%2Bi8BjyTCEAcPjL4CM2da7VA5okLH53Qg@mail.gmail.com> References: <5083C719.1040109@gmail.com> <CAKLtBChswXj7HcZeC=SaJgMNDrZXu==DHFP5PW4wB9=ruKSWWA@mail.gmail.com> <20121021092136.20307802@narn.knownspace> <50846392.70007@gmail.com> <CAHSQbTC7SA8qiVGQi%2BfmsmzYBVQLR09Dmzhjk1Ev=srsufc_HQ@mail.gmail.com> <5085F595.4050609@gmail.com> <20121022215945.436873dc@narn.knownspace> <5089A6DB.9070904@brakiri.com> <5089DF27.9020803@gmail.com> <20121025213018.2bfa5068@narn.knownspace> <5089F799.9030507@gmail.com> <508A17C9.4030007@gmail.com> <CAHSQbTCdFy19Dt8nWQ%2Bi8BjyTCEAcPjL4CM2da7VA5okLH53Qg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/26/12 05:15, Justin Hibbits wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:55 AM, matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com > <mailto:sendtomatt@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > It was working without DRM "out-of-the-box". Of course I've made > a mess > > trying different versions of both Xorg and the radeon driver. > I'm in the > > process of getting back to the working config so I can be sure > any test > > changes work/don't work. > > > > OpenBSD's mpi@ apparently did a lot recently over there getting > DRM to > > work on the G4 mini. We already had about half of the commits I > see at > > freshbsd, in one way or another...Our rmb/wmb() I think has had PPC > > barriers since earlier this year? He did #define __BIG_ENDIAN, which > > apparently was a big deal for the drm code (it's ifdef'd in a couple > > places), not sure if we are already doing that. > > If someone has a G4 radeon mini they could test to see if drm > works for > > them or not, to rule out AGP issues (I guess they are PCI?). > > > > I'm not sure how the OpenBSD attachment process works vs ours, > some of > > the other commits of note were related to passing the BAR and memory > > regions from the vgapci to drm. When I kldload drm after > compiling it, > > it doesn't do anything...but if I kldload radeon.ko, it > recognizes agp > > memory and being related to vgapci at the correct pci > address...I'm not > > sure if we "are there" or not. I also didn't have DRM on OpenBSD > either. > > > > I think if radeon had drm on *any* big-endian platform it should > rule > > out endian issues in drm or radeon. Not sure if this is the case, I > > guess macppc would be the most likely. > > > > Matt > So I removed WITH_NEW_XORG, deinstalled a ton of ports, and > reinstalled > Xorg. I rebuild drm with __BIG_ENDIAN defined (not sure if this > matters). I previously put a lot of WERROR= and NO_WERROR= into > various > drm makefiles to get gcc to shut up about unused return values. X > -configure worked, and the xorg log indicates the drm device was > successfully opened and I have drm on PPC. > mesa-demos is marked broken for PPC, haven't tried glxinfo or > glxgears yet. > > The good news is it works! > The bad news: > -Cannot switch back to syscons, screen gets corrupted then the system > hard locks > -WITH_NEW_XORG breaks it somehow > > Thanks to mpi@openbsd.org <mailto:mpi@openbsd.org>, Justin & Nathan! > > Matt > > > That's fantastic! If I'm able to get my current project done (PMU > sleep/speed change on PowerBook) I'll definitely give that a shot this > weekend. > > One thing that may help with switching back to syscons is, NetBSD has > a radeonfb driver for console framebuffer.Earlier in the week I > briefly looked at that, and it may not be too difficult to port it to > FreeBSD and integrate with syscons. Only major hurdle for that would > be dealing with ofwfb as well. Just some more tinkering :) > > Excellent news! > > - Justin New development, I get random hangs...I'm going to try disabling EXA for XAA. Backtrace during hang: #0 0x41fd4b28 in ioctl () from /lib/libc.so.7 #1 0x420c0a7c in drmIoctl () from /usr/local/lib/libdrm.so.2 #2 0x420c0bdc in drmCommandNone () from /usr/local/lib/libdrm.so.2 #3 0x421a03e8 in RADEONWaitForIdleCP () from /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so #4 0x421feef8 in RADEONSyncCP () from /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so #5 0x42295748 in exaWaitSync () from /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so #6 0x42296d40 in ExaDoPrepareAccess () from /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so #7 0x42297e90 in exaPrepareAccessReg_classic () from /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so #8 0x42296f14 in exaPrepareAccess () from /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so #9 0x422a2c78 in ExaCheckImageGlyphBlt () from /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so #10 0x01976a6c in miImageText8 () #11 0x018f2f0c in DamageSetup () #12 0x018337ec in doImageText () #13 0x01833984 in ImageText () #14 0x0182cb48 in ProcImageText8 () #15 0x0182efe8 in Dispatch () #16 0x01823188 in main () Is this 8bit DRM crashing it because unlike 16 and 32 it's not byteswapped? BTW, mesa-demos compiles if you insert a copy of byteswap.h (I got mine from arnold.se's article about bitcoin, of all things) and you define the powerpc write barrier. Matthome | help
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