Kernel Mode-Setting (KMS) on Neo FreeRunner + Debian

Russell Hay russellh at ysmail.net
Tue Aug 18 17:31:13 CEST 2009


Hear hear... well done Thomas - we're all looking forward to what you're
hacking on!

Russ


2009/8/18 Yorick Moko <yorickmoko at gmail.com>

>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Chris Samuel <chris at csamuel.org> wrote:
>
>> I haven't seen anyone else post about this yet, but this looks really
>> neat!
>>
>> (Found via Planet Ubuntu)
>>
>> http://losca.blogspot.com/2009/08/kernel-mode-setting-kms-on-neo.html
>>
>> # Forget AMD, Intel, NVIDIA! Thomas White's incredible work with Neo
>> # FreeRunner's puny graphics dec...accelerator, Smedia Glamo 3362 is
>> starting
>> # to bear fruits.  [...]
>> #
>> # The camera shot on the right, running KMS-enabled X.org driver for the
>> glamo
>> # chip on my Debian installation (visible software
>> matchbox-window-manager,
>> # fbpanel, zhone), is a bit optimistic looking since Zhone happens to draw
>> # correctly. A lot of the drawing is not yet synced correctly, which shows
>> as
>> # all text and images in eg. GTK applications being garbled. But as little
>> as
>> # two days ago one couldn't yet much launch applications without X
>> crashing,
>> # so the newest commits by Thomas were a big step forwards. I'm using
>> Debian,
>> # and he's not, so I try to find time to help in debugging even though I
>> # really can't much help with the driver code.
>> #
>> # The driver is not just one piece of code, but consists of a kernel drm
>> # driver (direct rendering manager) using GEM, libdrm support for the
>> kernel
>> # driver and finally the X.org driver supporting these other components
>> and
>> # offering buzz-words like DRI2. There is also a beginning of a Mesa 3D
>> # driver, though it is so far just a skeleton driver since the
>> 2D/KMS/EXA/DRM
>> # parts are what should be done first before dwelling into the OpenGL
>> realm.
>> [...]
>>
>> Even has an excerpt from the X servers log file with:
>>
>> # (WW) Glamo(0): EXA hardware acceleration initialising
>> # (II) EXA(0): Driver allocated offscreen pixmaps
>> # (II) EXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations:
>> # (II) Solid
>> # (II) Copy
>> # (II) Glamo(0): Initialized EXA acceleration
>>
>> Thomas's own blog is here:
>>
>> http://www.bitwiz.org.uk/
>>
>> cheers,
>> Chris
>> --
>>  Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC
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> Three cheers for Thomas White!
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