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Date:      Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:15:35 +0200
From:      Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua>
To:        ports@FreeBSD.org, x11@FreeBSD.org, Norikatsu Shigemura <nork@FreeBSD.org>, Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>, spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua
Subject:   Re: [HEADS UP] Experimental 3D HW accel support for Radeon HD 2xxx, 3xxx and 4xxx, 2nd!
Message-ID:  <20091223061535.GA90713@ravenloft.kiev.ua>

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On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:38:50PM -0600, Robert Noland wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 07:31 +0200, Alex Kozlov wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:03:15AM +0900, Norikatsu Shigemura wrote:
> > > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:26:38 -0600 Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > > > As much as I don't want to, I need to request a repo copy of libdrm in
> > > > order to keep nouveau working...  The bits needed for r600 were added
> > > > just after 2.4.12 and the bits that broke nouveau were just before
> > > > 2.4.13...
> > > 
> > > 	Ah, I just see! ABI breakage is building issue, I confirmed:
> > > 
> > > 	I think simple-fully xf86-video-nouveau updating at the same
> > > 	time.  Please see also attached patch.  I confirmed that
> > > 	compile is OK.  But I don't have any GeForce video cards.
> > > 	So I don't know any problems of updating it in real.
> > > 
> > > 	And do you have any recommendation of GeForce? e.g. 9800GTX,
> > > 	GT260, ...  I'll get one and test.  I'm interested in Cuda
> > > 	and nvidia binary driver, too.
> > > 
> > > P.S. libdrm was update to 2.4.17, so I'll update...
> > I just tested libdrm 2.4.17 with --enable-radeon-experimental-api 
> > and mesalib git master. It's work quite good. Well, it worked
> > quite good before 
> 
> I've said it before, but I'll repeat... libdrm_radeon serves no purpose
> on FreeBSD and may cause problems.  It is only used by TTM/KMS enabled
> drivers on linux.  If it ever becomes useful... I'll enable it in the
> port.
Sorry. I only mean that libradeon is a harmless at the moment.

Could You please let us know rough roadmap for freebsd kernel drm? 


> > "Merge branch 'glsl-pp-rework-2'" (e195eab9093d2a6cf55a42b2e7789c9a381b778)
> > but this is separate matter.
> > So may be enabling libdrm_radeon is not such a bad idea.


--
Adios



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