On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 4:10:35 AM EST Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > Hi > > Am 10.03.21 um 03:50 schrieb nerdopolis: > > On Friday, September 2, 2016 4:22:38 AM EST David Herrmann wrote: > >> Hey > >> > >> On request of Noralf, I picked up the patches and prepared v5. Works fine with > >> Xorg, if configured according to: > >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2014-January/052777.html > >> If anyone knows how to make Xorg pick it up dynamically without such a static > >> configuration, please let me know. > >> > >> > >> > > Hi > > > > I am kind of curious as I do have interest in seeing this merged as well. > > Please take a look at [1]. It's not the same driver, but something to > the same effect. I know it's been almost a year, but I do work on this > and intend to come back with a new version during 2021. > Thanks, I'll try that out > I currently work on fastboot support for the new driver. But it's a > complicated matter and takes time. If there's interest, we could talk > about merging what's already there. > > Best regards > Thomas > > [1] > https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20200625120011.16168-1-tzimmermann@xxxxxxx/ > > > > > There is an email in this thread from 2018, but when I tried to import an mbox > > file from the whole month for August 2018, for some reason, kmail doesn't see > > the sender and mailing list recipient in that one, so I will reply to this one, > > because I was able to import this into my mail client. > > https://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg185519.html > > > > I was able to get this to build against Linux 4.8, but not against a newer > > version, some headers seem to have been split, and some things are off by 8 > > and other things. I could NOT find a git repo, but I was able to find the > > newest patches I could find, and import those with git am against 4.8 with > > some tweaks. If that is needed, I can link it, but only if you want. > > > > However in QEMU I wasn't able to figure out how to make it create a > > /dev/dri/card0 device, even after blacklisting the other modules for qxl, > > cirrus, etc, and then modprobe-ing simpledrm > > > > In my view something like this is would be useful. There still could be > > hardware devices that don't have modesetting support (like vmvga in > > qemu/virt-manager as an example). And most wayland servers need a > > /dev/dri/card0 device as well as a potential user-mode TTY replacement would > > also need /dev/dri/card0 > > > > I will admit I unfortunately failed to get it to build against master. I > > couldn't figure out some of the changes, where some new structs were off by > > a factor of 8. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dri-devel mailing list > > dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
