[indiana-discuss] Proposal to create DRM porting project OpenSolaris endorsed/reference dist

[Martin Bochnig]

> > Hi, Martin,
> > 
> > Great to hear that. How about we start it in
> > Opensolaris ? I am also 
> > porting Radeon driver to
> > solaris, and the driver can work since snv_68, but
> > the performance is 
> > not good. It even has some
> > bad impact on 2D rendering.
> > 
> > I definitely made a big mistake. Alan once told me
> to
> > start it in 
> > opensolaris community early. But I
> > didn't do that. Now, I want to correct this: let's
> > start this project in 
> > opensolaris and work together.
> > 
> > I sent a email to driver-disscuss aliases already,
> > and got some +1. So, 
> > we could send proposal to
> > OGB now with help from core contributors.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > -minskey
> 
> 
> Hi Minskey,
> 
> thats great. I'm looking forward to joining you. This
> is yet another bold 
> 
> +1
> 
> for your proposal.
> My driver isn't working properly. I have to re-check
> all struct and function definitions and corresponding
> calls, and that takes time. My version is based on
> older (shorter/simpler) versions from 2005/2006 of
> the files which I got me with git's bisect command,
> from shared-core and in two cases (plain files, where
> not symlinks) from bsd-core, rather than from
> linux-core. Then I just adjusted everything to match
> your i915 DDI/DKI port.
> 
> Attention: I'm not at home until November 23rd or
> 24th. I'm connected via my hotel room's WiFi.
> I'm CC'ing: this msg. to driver-discuss (this msg. is
> was posted through jive). I will contact you as soon
> as I'm back home and then send you my preliminary
> stuff.


That may sound misleading. I think you know what I meant, but simply to avoid ambiguity:
I properly isolated your i915 port's changes, then ported them to radeon and finally integrated everything into a local OS/Net b75 tree.

Then came the actual porting work: Testing, testing, changing etc. cycle.

> Best regards,
> Martin
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