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Date:      Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:19:21 +0100
From:      Luc Verhaegen <libv@skynet.be>
To:        Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com>
Cc:        x11@freebsd.org, radeonhd@opensuse.org
Subject:   Re: [radeonhd] Initial R5xx XAA and EXA support pushed.
Message-ID:  <20080129211921.GA30292@skynet.be>
In-Reply-To: <479F9374.9030204@gmail.com>
References:  <20080129202857.GB30040@skynet.be> <479F9374.9030204@gmail.com>

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On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:58:28PM +0100, Rene Ladan wrote:
> Luc Verhaegen schreef:
> > While this will allow most R5xx users to already move away from 
> > shadowFB, it is still not as fast as it could be :) For instance, EXA 
> > doesn't have accelerated (DMAed) up or download yet, but i hope to make 
> > this happen soon.
> > 
> > I would like some PPC users to give both XAA and EXA a thorough try. I 
> > expect at least exa to be broken, as the prepare/finishAccess hooks 
> > probably need to have their surface offset.
> > 
> > So please give it a spin, and report problems asap :)
> > 
> Does this require kernel support?  I'm using FreeBSD 7.0-RC1, with this
> in the kernel:
> 
> device pci
> device vga
> options VESA
> device agp
> device drm
> 
> The radeondrm driver only seems to support < r400 cards.
> 
> Rene

no, we do not support drm yet.

So this runs directly, all you need to do is get the latest driver :)

Luc Verhaegen.
SUSE/Novell X Driver Developer.



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