On Oct 05, 07 00:22:09 +0200, Syren Baran wrote:
I personaly dont know how the ATI architecture differs that a kernel module might be unnecesarry. Fglrx also uses a kernel module.
It has a completely programmable command processor (Tom's Hardware has a pretty good overview in this case), and all memory accesses (from the hardware side) seem to be virtual, so it might have a MMU. As long as the command processor cannot be programmed from user space, this scenario can be made secure for complete user space programming. I have *no* idea ATM, whether this works with the current DRI architecture or not, so this is probably something for later improvements, but not for the beginning.
Whether Gallium is an option or not is also not decided yet. But that could be changed later on as well. But until some 3D sees the light of the day, it's probably decided by the community.
I´ll invest a couple of hours now and then. Been a while since i last did low level gfx card stuff and 3D, but i hope i´ll be able to contribute a bit more than just some pci-ids.
Cool :) Thanks, but don't follow that road too far ATM. It'll be quite a while until we will see 3D docs. At least that's my estimation. CU Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ mat@mshopf.de Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ R & D www.mshopf.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org