From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 4 22:37:27 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A46229D3 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 22:37:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zeising@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se (mail.lysator.liu.se [IPv6:2001:6b0:17:f0a0::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 175F08FC08 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 22:37:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEDAE4000A for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 23:37:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D26E340009; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 23:37:25 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on bernadotte.lysator.liu.se X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 Received: from mx.daemonic.se (h-45-105.a163.priv.bahnhof.se [94.254.45.105]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 88AE940003; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 23:37:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from mailscanner.daemonic.se (mailscanner.daemonic.se [IPv6:2001:470:dca9:0:1::6]) by mx.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3XvsN41SBhz8hVq; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 23:37:24 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daemonic.se Received: from mx.daemonic.se ([IPv6:2001:470:dca9:0:1::3]) (using TLS with cipher CAMELLIA256-SHA) by mailscanner.daemonic.se (mailscanner.daemonic.se [IPv6:2001:470:dca9:0:1::6]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with ESMTPS id re01c_Z3xdHa; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 23:37:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.daemonic.se (mail.daemonic.se [10.1.0.4]) by mx.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3XvsN21Yx8z8hVm; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 23:37:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from tifa.daemonic.se (tifa.daemonic.se [10.32.0.6]) by mail.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3XvsN21Fn9z9CwX; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 23:37:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from tifa.daemonic.se (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by tifa.daemonic.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59FD222AFA; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 23:37:13 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <5096EE18.2050005@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:37:12 +0100 From: Niclas Zeising User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Subject: Re: r300-based boards... Are they now officially a lost cause? References: <19753.1352066736@tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <19753.1352066736@tristatelogic.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP 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: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 22:37:27 -0000 On 11/04/12 23:05, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message<50965A0B.3080104@freebsd.org>, > Niclas Zeising wrote: > >>>>> So, um, if I understand correctly "Mesa" currently contains: >>>>> >>>>> 1) code to implement an API called "Mesa3d", and... >>>>> >>>>> 2) code to implement a rather different API called "Gallium3D" >>>>> ... >>>> ... As far as I know, this API has always been unsupported on >>>> FreeBSD (this might be completely wrong though), so the chances are you >>>> are not using it. >>> >>> By "this API" I assume that you mean "Gallium", correct? >> Yes. > > So that has never been supported on FreeBSD?? > > I'm a little surprised because from what little I read about it, the Gallium > approach is rather better. I think one of the big issues here is that we lack kernel code needed to make gallium work. I haven't looked into the details though. Regards! -- Niclas Zeising