On Friday, March 12, 2021 3:03:46 AM EST Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > Hi > > Am 12.03.21 um 04:49 schrieb nerdopolis: > > 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. > >> > >> 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 > >>> > >> > >> > > Hi > > > > I tried simplekms against v5.9, and it built, and it runs, and is pretty neat. > > > > I tried using the qxl, cirrus, and vmware card in QEMU. Weston starts on all > > of them. And I did ensure that the simplekms driver was being used > > Cool! Thanks a lot. When I submit the next patchset can I add > > Tested-by: nerdopolis <bluescreen_avenger@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > to the tags? > Sure! > > > > That is, it works after adding GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep , to avoid having to > > set a VGA option. (although not sure the equivalent in syslinux yet) > > Yeah, it's a known 'limitation.' (1) But it's usually something that > Linux distributions take care of. > > The rsp kernel feature needs a set up from the firmware/bootloader/etc. > Once the driver has been merged, added other generic drivers (EFI, VESA, > etc) should be a lot easier. Those would maybe not require the firmware > setup. > > Best regards > Thomas > > (1) Well, it's the way it's supposed to work. > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
