On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 08:59 +0200, slubman wrote:
> > Il semble que AMD ait vraiment décidé de libérer les specs des cartes
> > ATI sans condition. Si c'est vrai, on va peut-être enfin pouvoir avoir
> > des ensembles CM + proc + GPU puissants totalement libres...
> >
> > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjA0Ng
> >
> Attendons ... ATI avait en sont temps déjà fait des annonces ... non suivies
> d'actions. Cette fois ci il y a certe beaucoup de communication faite, mais
> un "tiens" vaut mieux que deux "tu l'auras"
En fait, c'est parti. Les développeurs d'Xorg ont déjà commencé à bosser
sur le driver depuis un moment, et devraient dortir la 1ère version
cette semaine. Mais apparemment ils ont encore quelques petits bugs et
aimeraient que tout fonctionne bien en 2D avant de releaser.
Cf mail ci-joint.
Xav
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 10:46:11AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 10:39 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > Anyway, to get back on topic - now it's Monday, any news from any
> > > ATI-involved X developers? It would be nice to know what's going to
> > > happen with avivo and so forth.
> >
> > http://airlied.livejournal.com/50187.html
> > http://www.fooishbar.org/blog/tech/x/amd-2007-09-10-09-22.html
> > http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007/Notes
>
> I rather meant opinions and plans from the people who were *already*
> working on ATI drivers, but thanks. :)
Well,
We spent most of the weekend either travelling or coding. On monday we
spent most of the time coding at XDS, and leaving very early at the
sponsored supper. Today we spent most of the day coding in our
hotelroom, and only made it very late to XDS (in the middle of daniels
his talk - sorry daniel, takes 25-30 minutes on foot to get there from
the hotel).
But on the plus side, this m56 laptop now has panel support (unscaled,
and i cut some corners in the restore routine), and DDC and everything
now is all somewhat tied together. Enough to make the driver throw up
its hands in the air when it validates the modes of the panel and the
VGA connector to the projector at XDS (we of course don't have access to
other monitors while out here) :)
Panel = single fixed mode at 1680x1050
Projector = up to 1280x1024
There is just no way that they will support the same mode at the same
time :)
So at least it is no longer doing wrong things, (since around 18.00
today), but i still need to stop it from giving up in this case.
Egbert is currently working on retrieving connector mapping information
out of the atombios tables. I'm currently hardcoding them in a pci
subsystem id based table, and doing this for every card out there is,
hrm, kind of timeconsuming :)
Anyway, we know that this is taking long, but we want to be somewhere
when we push out our code as we will be swamped in userreports for a few
weeks as soon as we do send this out. Given the nature of the hardware
(you won't believe all the fiddly bits that need to be set up), and
the fact that we currently know 96 pci-ids (not counting the r6xx
firegls yet) there is a lot of pain to come.
It certainly is not going to be finished or shiny or whatever, but we
don't want to put us, or anyone else (like the users testing this new
code) through more trouble than needs be.
Luc Verhaegen.
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