r127 w/ KMS on PPC?

[Alex Buell]

On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 07:55 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > I'd like to step up for that, it'd let me learn a lot. I have
> already
> > extracted the r128 and its DRI from the 2.6.32 kernel tree and built
> > them as modules and they both work just fine, with the binary
> firmware.
> > What's involved in making KMS work on PPC? I'm sure I need the KMS
> > helpers and the TTM module as well right?
> 
> For r128, it could actually re-use a lot of the radeon KMS code, in
> fact nearly all of it.
> 
> Alex Deucher started doing a UMS merge of radeon/r128 at one point
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/xf86-video-ati/log/?h=r128-support
> 
> the main things would be adding the differences in the bios parsing,
> and modesetting paths to KMS first. 

I'll start digging into the Radeon, see what I can learn about KMS
integration. For now I'll build the r128 out of the tree, simplifies
things a bit. Is that OK? 

Any further reading would be tremendously helpful. 

Thanks
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