ATI 6.12.4 on ultraSparc runs slow

[Matt Turner]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:49 PM, jean-francois simon
<jfsimoncasa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:31 PM, jean-francois simon
>> <jfsimoncasa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > thanks to the people who provided support for big endian architectures,
>> > we
>> > are able to run the 6.12.4 ATI driver on a openSolaris sparc platform
>> > (T2000
>> > niagara). the graphic is a PCIe card using a e4690. i can see that  the
>> > atombios works fine, it seems, and edid is read OK,...and the gnome
>> > desktop
>> > is functional and looks good. plse note that  the configuration uses
>> > shadowfb. and i have configured the ATI driver with
>> >
>> > --disable-dri
>> > --disable-exa
>>
>> Uh. Why have you disabled these?
>
> there is no DRI under solaris/sparc. i first tried to only disable dri but
> also had to disable exa to build the driver.

Ahh, Alex tells me that DRI is required for EXA on r600.

Sorry for the noise.
Matt