[oi-dev] nVidia GPU Driver Update for Upcoming Release??

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 05/22/11 01:00 PM, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
> * Shawn Thompson <superfox436 at gmail.com> [2011-05-22 18:53]:
>> How hard would it be to make Nouveau work under OI?
> 
> In order to even be able to port Nouveau Illumos would need KMS
> and GEM support first. In fact the lack thereof also prevents
> updating the Intel driver or porting modern ATI drivers.

Illumos should have GEM support already, but that only helps with
the Intel driver, as the other DRI drivers use the TTM memory manager
instead.   KMS is what you need for the new Intel driver, and KMS & TTM
for the new ATI, and probably Nouveau as well.

Pathscale was working on a OpenSolaris port of nouveau at one point as
well for their GPGPU compiler work.

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