[indiana-discuss] [xwin-discuss] mesa/opengl/glx, drm and dri versus SPARC

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Wed Sep 19 06:57:29 PDT 2007


Martin Bochnig wrote:
> "drm" and "i915" kernel modules successfully built for sparcv9, but a 
> number of unresolved symbols.
> Should not be too difficult to fix.
 > "drm" is a submodule that gets pre-loaded by the device-specific
 > modules, currently limited to i915 on Solaris. But the framework should
 > be rather easily extensible to cover the other chipsets already
 > supported on linux and bsd.

Cool - though I doubt we'll ever see a SPARC machine with Intel graphics
on the motherboard, I understand that's the only DRM module we actually
have checked into ON right now.   (Jay is actually investigating what it
would take to just build the entire DRI/DRM tree on Solaris, so we may
be getting more soon.)

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering


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