AROS (The Free AmigaOS) Gets With Gallium3D

Posted by Michael Larabel on May 21, 2010

A $600 bounty came around a while back within the AROS (AROS Research Operating System) community to port Gallium3D and the Nouveau driver to this operating system that is a free software implementation of the AmigaOS 3.1 APIs. This bounty was successful in getting an OpenGL subsystem running on this free AmigaOS alternative via Mesa and Gallium3D and now a 2D architecture is also being implemented atop Gallium3D -- it sounds familiar to how the X.Org developers are implementing the Xorg state tracker to accelerate EXA and X-Video.

The ported Nouveau support extends from the GeForce 1 series GPUs up through the GeForce 9 series and includes automatic mode-setting using DDC, among other features. The AROS with the Nouveau graphics support is already available in the AROS nightly builds.

This AROS Nouveau-Gallium3D news can be read about at AmigaWorld.net. The bounty can be found at Power2People. Beyond Linux and the usual other operating systems, Haiku OS also hopes to use Gallium3D.

Discuss this article in our forums, IRC channel, or email the author. You can also follow our content via RSS and on social networks like Facebook, Identi.ca, and Twitter (@Phoronix and @MichaelLarabel). Subscribe to Phoronix Premium to view our content without advertisements, view entire articles on a single page, and experience other benefits.
Latest Hardware Reviews
  1. Sumo Lounge Emperor
  2. Gallium3D Continues Improving OpenGL For Older Radeon GPUs
  3. 15-Way Open vs. Closed Source NVIDIA/AMD Linux GPU Comparison
  4. Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux Comparison Shows Shortcomings
Latest Software Articles
  1. GCC 4.8.0 vs. LLVM Clang 3.3 Compiler Performance
  2. Intel Linux OpenGL Driver Leading Over Apple OS X
  3. The Cost Of Ubuntu Disk Encryption
  4. Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. XFS vs. F2FS On Linux 3.10
Latest Linux News
  1. A New X.Org-Free Wayland LiveCD Released
  2. Unity 8, Mir Made Progress This Week On Features
  3. LLVM Clang 3.3 RC2 Is Ready For Testing
  4. AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D Begins Simple CL Demos
  5. Intel Shows Off GNOME3-Based Tizen Shell
  6. Linux Desktop Security Could Be A Whole Lot Better
  7. KDE 4.11 Will Be The Last Major KDE4 Workspaces Feature Release
  8. New NVIDIA Linux Driver Supports The GeForce GTX 780
  9. Chrome 28 To Offer More Speed Improvements
  10. Digia Announces "Boot To Qt" Project
  11. X.Org Libraries Hit By Round Of Security Issues
Latest Forum Talk
  1. A New X.Org-Free Wayland LiveCD Released
  2. Linux's "Ondemand" Governor Is No...
  3. GCC 4.8.0 vs. LLVM Clang 3.3 Compiler Performance
  4. Linux Desktop Security Could Be A Whole Lot Better
  5. Microsoft Releases Skype For Linux 4.2, Has...
  6. Unity 8, Mir Made Progress This Week On Features
  1. Computers
  2. Display Drivers
  3. Graphics Cards
  4. Motherboards
  5. Peripherals
  6. Processors
  7. Software
  8. Operating Systems
  9. All Articles
  1. Linux Benchmarking
  2. OpenBenchmarking.org
  3. Phoronix Test Suite