[Mesa-dev] big endian: r600g

[Dragomir Ivanov]

Best thing to do is to hire some developer to do the work for you. If it
knows Mesa well, this can be cheaper and faster than doing it yourself. I
know Timothy Arceri  ( t_arceri at yahoo.com.au)  was doing some Mesa work for
pay in the past.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky at xenosoft.de
> wrote:

> Hi Michel,
>
> Thank you for your answer. I don't have an idea anymore. Could you tell me
> which files we have to modify? Is it possible to port the AMD Catalyst
> driver to the PowerPC platform? If yes do you know how can I in touch with
> AMD? Please help us. We want to release new PowerPC desktop systems but
> without 3D acceleration it wouldn't be so nice.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christian
>
> On 19 August 2015 at 09:12 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
>> On 19.08.2015 15:02, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>>
>>> Could you please adapt the r600g driver for the changed PIPE_FORMAT_*
>>> semantics for big endian machines, please?
>>>
>>> All Power Mac and AMIGA one users can't use AMD Radeon HD7xxx or higher
>>> for 3D acceleration. The r600g driver needs to be adapted to changes in
>>> the way the Gallium3D infrastructure deals with big endian hosts.
>>>
>>> Bug report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72877
>>>
>> I'm afraid this kind of request isn't going to get you anywhere. The
>> problem is that there's nobody working on Mesa who cares about those
>> platforms. You'd need to find somebody who cares about those platforms
>> and who can work on fixing the issues.
>>
>>
>>
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