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Bug #1721

Updated by swildner almost 13 years ago

FreeBSD Current's sys/dev/drm, graphics drivers inside the kernel, has 
 been mostly ported to DragonFly with the exception of a partial 
 implementation (returns first integer available but no option to 
 specify a floor) of Linux's idr (small integer ID management) API and 
 with the exception of the entire via driver stack.    A diff of the 
 entire port, which is 100k because several new files have been 
 imported virtually unchanged from FreeBSD, can be found at: 

 http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~davshao/r600fbsd.diff 

 A git branch r600fbsd can be found at 

 git://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~davshao/dragonfly.git 

 Due to the hard work of others previously translating the equivalents 
 of locking (in some sense the port can be viewed as the limits of 
 porting without a full implementation of Linux's idr API), not much 
 more was done other than making obvious replacements. 

 A private hashtable implementation was imported from FreeBSD's 
 kern/subr_hash.c and sys/hash.h because of the lack of a hashdestroy() 
 function in the DragonFly equivalent APIs. 

 The port has been tested only on a Radeon HD 4550 on an x86_64 Shuttle 
 SG45H7.    In particular I cannot guarantee that the port will work at 
 all on Intel graphics, although a few changes were made in the i915 
 code to add one new header file. 

 The major update appears to be in the Radeon section of the code.    In 
 particular there are tests in one file radeon_state.c that appear for 
 the special case of Radeons r600 or later to skip certain IRQ 
 processing.    Previous to the port I had succeeded in building the 
 latest git versions of X.org including libdrm and Mesa which enabled 
 me to load the hardware module in AIGLX, only the machine would lock 
 up hard.    After the port, indications are that the proper hardware 
 modules are being loaded.    For example, dmesg gives in part: 

 info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.31.0 20080613 
 info: [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map 
 info: [drm] Loading RV710 Microcode 
 info: [drm] Resetting GPU 
 info: [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs 

 while the corresponding Xorg.0.log log file has 

 95.404] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 
 [      95.405] drmOpenDevice: open result is 11, (OK) 
 [      95.405] drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:00.0 
 [      95.405] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 
 [      95.405] drmOpenDevice: open result is 11, (OK) 
 [      95.405] drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 11 
 [      95.405] drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:00.0 
 [      95.507] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer 
 [      95.507] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_SGI_make_current_read 
 [      95.507] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_texture_from_pixmap with driver support 
 [      95.507] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /opt/xtest/lib/dri/r600_dri.so 
 [      95.507] (II) GLX: Initialized DRI GL provider for screen 0 

 Note the loading of r600_dri.so.    It is very easy if anything goes 
 wrong for Mesa to simply fall back on the software driver, and on a 
 relatively fast machine it may not be easy to tell if running ordinary 
 applications.    With the port one can run various Mesa demos under 
 mesa/mesa/progs/xdemos and watch for example the wheels go round.

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