[Openchrome-users] K8m890 DRI.

[Thomas Hellström]

Jon Nettleton wrote:

>On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 20:10 +0100, Thomas Hellstr?m wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi, guys!
>>
>>There's a bugzilla feature request about adding K8m890 to DRM.
>>Check out
>>
>>https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9370
>>
>>However, to make any use of dri and to know how to set up the DRM security checks, we need
>>either 
>>XvMC,
>>EXA composite
>>or 
>>Accelerated OpengGL running.
>>
>>I haven't quite followed how things are going, but are any of these subsystems working yet?
>>
>>/Thomas
>> 
>>    
>>
>Thomas,
>
>Currently we have XV running on most chipsets.  I left XvMC disabled
>until we could get to that stage because people were trying to jump
>right to XvMC and things were getting confusing.  I think enabling XvMC
>is the next step. 
>
>What does EXA need to run?  Is everything handled by the code in
>via_dri.c?  If so people could start testing that ASAP.
>
>Jon
>
>  
>
Jon,
Exa doesn't need DRI, but it uses the 3D engine of the chip so if it is
backwards compatible, EXA composite should work.

Really the only thing needing DRI is XvMC and accelerated OpenGL.

/Thomas

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