[Nouveau] Porting nouveau/ttm/drm to FreeBSD/OpenSolaris

[Stephane Marchesin]

2010/1/23 "C. Bergström" <cbergstrom at pathscale.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> One of our (PathScale) engineers is planning to port nouveau and all
> dependencies to OpenSolaris.  We have two routes we can take and would
> like some feedback from the community.
>
> 1) There's an existing drm without ttm that was done by the FreeBSD
> developers.  Would anyone from the fbsd team like to go over some of the
> trouble they've had in porting ttm?
>
> 2) The engineer doing the work is much more familiar with Intel GEM and
> has said the following (which I don't honestly know if it's true or not)
>    a. Intel GEM surely will continue to be supported
>    b. It's already available on OpenSolaris
>    c. More portable than ttm
>    d. GEM doesn't have support for nvidia cards and is missing some
> important features.  (For OpenSolaris he says those can be added and is
> less effort than porting ttm)
>    e. Is probably better performance compared to ttm
>

How do you plan to handle "real" video memory in GEM? Will you add
support for it in the GEM common code?

Stephane