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Date:      Mon, 8 Apr 2002 14:42:53 -0600
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To:        Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ServerWorks AGP support?
Message-ID:  <20020408144253.A14288@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <200204081813.g38IDeJo015890@realtime.exit.com>; from frank@exit.com on Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:13:40AM -0700
References:  <200204081813.g38IDeJo015890@realtime.exit.com>

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On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:13:40 -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> I recently acquired a Tyan S1867 motherboard, which uses the ServerWorks
> HE chipset.  I have a Radeon 7500 video card and I want to be able to do
> direct rendering with XFree86 4.2.  Unfortunately, the ServerWorks chipset
> doesn't appear to be supported in modules/agp.ko.
> 
> So, is anyone working on adding such support?  I see that the ServerWorks
> chipset is (or at least appears to be) supported in the Linux AGP code;
> if necessary I can extract the necessary information from that code to
> write a driver for FreeBSD, but it would be nice if someone had already
> done the work, since my time is more than full enough already. :-)

I took a look at it a few weeks ago, since I've also got a couple of
Serverworks boards with AGP, but I decided that I had more pressing things
to do than get DRI working. :)

Anyway, I'd say go for it. :)

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@kdm.org

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