dri2 and/or kms status?

[Sadako]

I haven't heard or read about either of these for a while, so I was wondering if anyone knows the current status on either of this, wrt r500 support in particular, and what I need to grab to try them out?

I actually had kms working ages ago, at least the kernel driver part (it worked just like radeonfb for me), but sorg wouldn't start with it, and I get the impression it's kinda gone backwards since then...

I currently have a 2.6.28 kernel, xorg-server 1.6, xf86-video-ati 6.11 (but just tried the git version and there's no dri2 there...), libdrm 2.4.5 and mesa 7.3.

What exactly do I need to grab from git to get try out either of these, can anybody tell me?

The radeon-gem-cs3 branch within airlied's personal xf86-video-ati repo looks likely for dri2 at least...

thx

[agd5f]

It's making steady progress. roughly, you'll need:

drm/kernel:
drm-rawhide branch of Dave's kernel tree:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kerne....git;a=summary

ddx:
radeon-gem-cs3 branch of Dave's ddx:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~airlied...radeon-gem-cs3

libdrm:
modesetting-gem branch of drm tree:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm...odesetting-gem

mesa:
radeon_rewrite branch of mesa:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mes...radeon-rewrite

[Sadako]

Thanks agd5f, I'll try those now.

But would it be possible to just grab the drm and radeon modules from git, or do I really need the entire kernel too?

[agd5f]

Thanks agd5f, I'll try those now.

But would it be possible to just grab the drm and radeon modules from git, or do I really need the entire kernel too?

You could try pulling the kernel bits out of Dave's tree and building against another kernel, but YMMV.

[entropy]

Hi!

Any news if we will see official kms support for Radeons in kernel 2.6.30?

Thanks.

[agd5f]

It will most likely be 2.6.31 since the merge window for 2.6.30 is closing soon.

[Domi09]

It is already in kernel as I heard, since 2.6.28 for the open source radeon driver, but I may be wrong ...

[agd5f]

radeon drm support for r6xx/r7xx/rs600 hardware went into 2.6.30. No radeon kms stuff has gone into the upstream kernel yet.

[Domi09]

ok then my information was wrong, however this is a good message

[Kano]

@agd5f

A kernel patch against 2.6.29 with it would be fine too.