<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Gary Mills <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary_mills@fastmail.fm" target="_blank">gary_mills@fastmail.fm</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">What is required to integrate the ATI video driver with OI?<br>
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I notice that the ATI video driver is present in Freebsd. It comes<br>
from X.org, and supports a long list of AMD/ATI/Radeon GPUs. The<br>
Freebsd package is called `xf86-video-ati'. It provides two shared<br>
libraries, ati_drv.so and radeon_drv.so, that are loaded by the X<br>
server.<br>
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Could we do the same thing with the X server in OI? What do we need<br>
to change?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What you mention is the Xorg module which is already present here (which I tested when I bumped Xorg to 1.18.x):<br><br><a href="https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/tree/oi/hipster/components/x11/xf86-video-ati">https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/tree/oi/hipster/components/x11/xf86-video-ati</a><br><br></div><div>Unfortunately newer versions require KMS support which requires actual kernel work at:<br><br><a href="https://github.com/illumos/gfx-drm">https://github.com/illumos/gfx-drm</a><br><br></div><div>but also in illumos-gate itself.<br><br></div><div>Ideally if someone decided to work on it the code would reside under the radeon directory here:<br><br><a href="https://github.com/illumos/gfx-drm/tree/master/usr/src/uts/intel">https://github.com/illumos/gfx-drm/tree/master/usr/src/uts/intel</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>There was a KMS radeon driver in Solaris but I am not sure if it is still maintained and it certainly supported only the ATI cards provided with Sun HW.<br><br></div><div>Kind regards<br><br></div><div>Aurelien<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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