[OpenIndiana-New-developers] GEM/KMS support in kernel

[Deano]

There is a lot interest in it (its needed for Intel as well), but it needs
someone with the time and ability to step up to the plate. Longer term its
required for the desktop support to be current.

So far a few of us who have considered it, but haven't found the time to
take it on, so it's on the TODO list.

I've had a quick look at the FreeBSD code, it's a lot of work even taking
that as the base, but that would be the best route to getting it working.

Would you be interested in working on it?

Bye,
Deano


-----Original Message-----
From: Jani Nieminen [mailto:jpknie at gmail.com] 
Sent: 13 March 2011 13:34
To: new-developers at openindiana.org
Subject: [OpenIndiana-New-developers] GEM/KMS support in kernel

Is there any ongoing effort to port GEM (Graphics Execution Manager) and KMS
(Kernel-Mode Setting) for OpenIndiana or should I say for Illumos? They are
needed because for example newest ATI Radeon drivers (xf86-ati-video)
depends on those systems, so for example you can get full ATI driver support
for Xorg (with 3D acceleration etc).

For FreeBSD there's this guy from Ukraine porting those kernel subsystems
(GEM/KMS/TTM) from Linux to FreeBSD side. Can we take any advantage from
this FreeBSD code when it gets released? I mean is it easier to port code
from BSD to Solaris than from Linux to BSD?

-JN
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