On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 07:56:36PM +1100, Lawrence Stewart wrote: > On 10/29/11 19:47, Kostik Belousov wrote: > >On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 07:24:52PM +1100, Lawrence Stewart wrote: > >>On 10/24/11 19:05, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >>>on 24/10/2011 07:07 Greg Lewis said the following: > >>>>So it seems like even the newest version we support in ports is an > >>>>antique :(. I'm going to guess upgrading it is not going to be easy. > >>> > >>>Almost trivial in a sense. > >>>I've been using xorg-dev for quite a while and it works great (for me). > >>>Mesa is > >>>at 7.11 in those ports. > >>> > >>>http://trillian.chruetertee.ch/ports/wiki > >>> > >> > >>I too no longer have compositing in KDE 4.7.2 where I used to with > >>4.6.x. Is there a technical reason the newer MESA hasn't been merged > >>into mainline ports? Or is it purely a manpower thing? > > > >There is newer Mesa in xorg-dev. See the instructions at > >http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/2011/02/cft-xorg-7-5-miwi1-freebsd-edition/ > > Thanks for the pointer. > > >There is a rat nest of the system dependencies and ddx/xorg server > >versions that makes the update really tricky. Until GEMified i915.ko > >is not committed to the src/, the Intel GPUs will not work, I believe. > >Also, it seems that Mesa 7.11 is the last release that will work > >for Radeon DRM that lacks TTM and execution support. > > I use Radeon so I guess it's an interim update which will get things > going in the short term followed by hoping someone capable of doing the > TTM support for it comes forward. Do you have a feel for just how much > time would be involved in doing the required work to get the radeon > driver up to scratch? Does your work for the Intel GPUs lay some common > groundwork which will reduce the work required to update other drivers > like radeon? (It is clear I have no concept about how all the moving > parts fit together or what's involved in getting all drivers into shape > for "the future" i.e. KMS).
I think 3-4 months is the reasonable estimation for bringing up both TTM/execution and KMS for radeons. The KMS infrastructure is already ported. If somebody is interested in doing the Radeon driver proper, I may port TTM.
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