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

Davide Scaini dscaini at gmail.com
Tue Aug 18 17:37:58 CEST 2009


yes, great!
waiting for a video ;-) (i saw only a photo on his blog...)
thanks
d

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Russell Hay <russellh at ysmail.net> wrote:

> 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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