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

Dan Staley daniel.l.staley at gmail.com
Tue Aug 18 18:19:54 CEST 2009


The glamo.....useful?  If this work continues...perhaps a rethink of
gta02-core is in order?!
Keep up the great work Thomas!

Also +1 on the video.

-Dan Staley

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Davide Scaini <dscaini at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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