<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Chris Samuel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris@csamuel.org">chris@csamuel.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I haven't seen anyone else post about this yet, but this looks really neat!<br>
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(Found via Planet Ubuntu)<br>
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<a href="http://losca.blogspot.com/2009/08/kernel-mode-setting-kms-on-neo.html" target="_blank">http://losca.blogspot.com/2009/08/kernel-mode-setting-kms-on-neo.html</a><br>
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# Forget AMD, Intel, NVIDIA! Thomas White's incredible work with Neo<br>
# FreeRunner's puny graphics dec...accelerator, Smedia Glamo 3362 is starting<br>
# to bear fruits. [...]<br>
#<br>
# The camera shot on the right, running KMS-enabled X.org driver for the glamo<br>
# chip on my Debian installation (visible software matchbox-window-manager,<br>
# fbpanel, zhone), is a bit optimistic looking since Zhone happens to draw<br>
# correctly. A lot of the drawing is not yet synced correctly, which shows as<br>
# all text and images in eg. GTK applications being garbled. But as little as<br>
# two days ago one couldn't yet much launch applications without X crashing,<br>
# so the newest commits by Thomas were a big step forwards. I'm using Debian,<br>
# and he's not, so I try to find time to help in debugging even though I<br>
# really can't much help with the driver code.<br>
#<br>
# The driver is not just one piece of code, but consists of a kernel drm<br>
# driver (direct rendering manager) using GEM, libdrm support for the kernel<br>
# driver and finally the X.org driver supporting these other components and<br>
# offering buzz-words like DRI2. There is also a beginning of a Mesa 3D<br>
# driver, though it is so far just a skeleton driver since the 2D/KMS/EXA/DRM<br>
# parts are what should be done first before dwelling into the OpenGL realm.<br>
[...]<br>
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Even has an excerpt from the X servers log file with:<br>
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# (WW) Glamo(0): EXA hardware acceleration initialising<br>
# (II) EXA(0): Driver allocated offscreen pixmaps<br>
# (II) EXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations:<br>
# (II) Solid<br>
# (II) Copy<br>
# (II) Glamo(0): Initialized EXA acceleration<br>
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Thomas's own blog is here:<br>
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<a href="http://www.bitwiz.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.bitwiz.org.uk/</a><br>
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cheers,<br>
Chris<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br>Three cheers for Thomas White!<br>