[oi-dev] The ATI video driver for OI

[Aurélien Larcher]

Hi,
sorry Martin I misremembered that the radeon drm driver was not kms.
I did not have much time to reply and my memory did not serve me well.
Kind regards

Aurelien

On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Мартин Бохниг via oi-dev <
oi-dev at openindiana.org> wrote:

> Hi Aurélien,
>
> how often shall I explain and repeat it to you?
> Here again: https://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/2017-
> September/005650.html
>
>
> Воскресенье, 17 сентября 2017, 0:45 +02:00 от Aurélien Larcher <
> aurelien.larcher at gmail.com>:
> Unfortunately newer versions require KMS support which requires actual
> kernel work at:
>
> https://github.com/illumos/gfx-drm
>
>
>
> There my STOLEN and further improved work is located.
> Unfortunately without my CDDL license headers!
>
> This is a LICENSE BREACH and may be prosecuted at some moment when I have
> less work and enough time.
>
>
>
>
> but also in illumos-gate itself.
>
> Ideally if someone decided to work on it the code would reside under the
> radeon directory here:
>
> https://github.com/illumos/gfx-drm/tree/master/usr/src/uts/intel
>
>
>
>
> That's a good one.
> It is as if I tell my wife: Yeahh, I found a solution!!!! I made some room
> for one Billion USD in the basement.
> Now we are finally ready to receive it, just in case anybody decides to
> sendf us 1 Billion USD.
>
> I recommend you to read my messages.
> Start with those from yesterday.
>
>
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
> Wrong guess.
> KMS didn't exist at that time.
> It was a DRM radeon driver mathing the first drm submodule that was in
> OpenSolaris - from the stone age.
>
> Because it dates back to 2006/2007 when it was ported over by the Sun
> Beijing team.
> I myself ported that to SPARC in 2007.
> So I - on contrast to most others - do know the code.
>
> Hopeless to explain it to you. I did already, 200 times  ...
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
> %martin bochnig
>
>
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Aurelien
>
>
>
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> Canada-
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