On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 22:36 +0100, Alex Buell wrote: > On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 16:02 -0400, Matt Turner wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Alex Buell <alex.buell at munted.org.uk> wrote: > > > Does the r128 dri driver supports KMS in the kernel on PPC? I've a G3 > > > iMac 600 here working very well with OpenGL but was wondering if it > > > could support KMS, in which case it would be quite nice. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > There's been some talk about an r128 KMS driver, but nothing has been > > done that I know of. > > 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. Dave.
