Gallium3D Status Update Q1'08
Points below are from Jerome Glisse's talk covering both Gallium3D and kernel mode-setting.
- DRI2 may be able to kill SAREA.
- Current Radeon DRM module is a nightmare with its many initialization paths.
- All of the new interesting features (DRI2, TTM memory management, Gallium3D, etc) will likely come to Radeon driver when moving to kernel mode-setting.
- "Radeon MS" is the new Radeon driver with kernel mode-setting and supports the R300/400 series currently. This new driver has improved memory management and takes advantage of the command processor.
- Jerome has written a Gallium3D winsys Radeon driver and a skeleton Gallium3D driver.
- Major items left on his to-do list is finishing the basic Gallium3D driver to serve as a "proof of concept", finish mode-setting, and working on DRI2.
- Radeon kernel mode-setting completion is at least a few months away.
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