Subject: Re: drm drivers for NetBSD
To: None <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: tech-x11
Date: 03/20/2007 13:21:16
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Hello,

On Mar 20, 2007, at 06:00, Matthias Drochner wrote:

>> I managed to get drm working here on NetBSD 4.0_BETA2
>> using the i915 driver.
>
> Great work!
> I've adapted it to my -current system (i945) and it appears to work.

Please commit so we don't have to duplicate work - I want to tinker 
with it on macppc :)

> The "glxgears" score is actually a bit less than with software
> rendering, but perhaps I'm doing something wrong. The amount
> of system time spent indicates that the kernel module does
> something...

Some drivers limit GL framerates to the video refresh rate, the nvidia 
driver and a whole bunch of commercial OpenGL implementations do that ( 
like IBM's and SGI's )

driinfo should tell you wether hardware rendering is in use or not.

> macallan@netbsd.org wrote:
>> I'd still put them into sys/dev/drm - a while ago I was hacking on DRM
>> support for Sun Creator3D graphics boards which are very non-PCI but
>> that's really just cosmetics.
>
> I've already done that: pci card frontends in sys/dev/pci/drm, rest
> in sys/dev/drm. There is still some pci specific code in common
> files, but at least the general separation is done.

Thanks!
Commit! Commit! Commit! ;)

have fun
Michael
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