[Openchrome-users] K8m890 DRI.

[Jon Nettleton]

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 20:51 +0100, Thomas Hellstr?m wrote:
> 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
> 
I am pretty certain that we have tested and the engines are different
enough that OpenGL crashes X.  I think that was very far along in the
beginning of our testing.  For now I have re-enabled XvMC for this
chipset so it can be tested.  I will keep you updated.

Jon