Re: [9fans] Radeon driver

2009-06-04 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Jun 1 21:20:38 EDT 2009, m...@acm.jhu.edu wrote: > As I understand, the sb600 series has the RS480 IGP, which is a > stripped-down r300 (missing some TnL h/w, vertex shaders). The 2D > parts of the Linux radeonfb look pretty similar between the r300 and > the rs480, so I'd go with yes. > >

Re: [9fans] Radeon driver

2009-06-02 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Jun 1 21:20:38 EDT 2009, m...@acm.jhu.edu wrote: > As I understand, the sb600 series has the RS480 IGP, which is a > stripped-down r300 (missing some TnL h/w, vertex shaders). The 2D > parts of the Linux radeonfb look pretty similar between the r300 and > the rs480, so I'd go with yes. > >

Re: [9fans] Radeon driver

2009-06-01 Thread Ori Bernstein
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 21:18:34 -0400 Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: > As I understand, the sb600 series has the RS480 IGP, which is a > stripped-down r300 (missing some TnL h/w, vertex shaders). The 2D > parts of the Linux radeonfb look pretty similar between the r300 and > the rs480, so I'd go with yes.

Re: [9fans] Radeon driver

2009-06-01 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
As I understand, the sb600 series has the RS480 IGP, which is a stripped-down r300 (missing some TnL h/w, vertex shaders). The 2D parts of the Linux radeonfb look pretty similar between the r300 and the rs480, so I'd go with yes. No idea about anything newer... I can take a look if people are inte

Re: [9fans] Radeon driver

2009-06-01 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Jun 1 15:16:00 EDT 2009, m...@acm.jhu.edu wrote: > > Now, how do I test, benchmark and, or profile this radeon driver against > > a generic one? > > IIRC, there was a port of some of xscreensaver's hacks to Plan 9. The > munch hack and hyperglenda should get a good bit faster. They might >

Re: [9fans] Radeon driver

2009-06-01 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
> Now, how do I test, benchmark and, or profile this radeon driver against > a generic one? IIRC, there was a port of some of xscreensaver's hacks to Plan 9. The munch hack and hyperglenda should get a good bit faster. They might have something to measure resulting fps-es. Also, watch the CPU load

Re: [9fans] Radeon driver

2009-06-01 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 05/30/2009 05:03 AM, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: > I've updated Philippe Anel's Radeon driver to work on a current > version of Plan 9. It compiles and should work, but I haven't been > able to test it on real hardware. > > http://grex.org/~vsrinivas/radeon/ Thanks, I have the following: vid=0x

Re: [9fans] Radeon driver

2009-06-01 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 05/30/2009 05:03 AM, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: > I've updated Philippe Anel's Radeon driver to work on a current > version of Plan 9. It compiles and should work, but I haven't been > able to test it on real hardware. > > http://grex.org/~vsrinivas/radeon/ I, after following the steps in the r

[9fans] Radeon driver

2009-05-29 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
Hi, I've updated Philippe Anel's Radeon driver to work on a current version of Plan 9. It compiles and should work, but I haven't been able to test it on real hardware. http://grex.org/~vsrinivas/radeon/ Take care, -- vs