Wrapping up 7.4 (finally)

Ian Romanick idr at us.ibm.com
Thu Jun 12 16:22:12 PDT 2008


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Stephane Marchesin wrote:
| On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Ian Romanick <idr at us.ibm.com> wrote:
|> Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade wrote:
|>
|> |   What is the state of xgixp and nouveau?
|> |
|> |   I tried to build nouveau, but it apparently doesn't build
nouveau_dri.so
|> | from either mesa 7.0.3 neither a very recent mesa git.  xgixp isn't
even
|> | in the master mesa git, but kernel modules are built by default from
|> drm...
|
| Yeah nouveau_dri.so from standard mesa is not supposed to build/work
| any more. We use gallium now.
|
|> Eh?  There is not, and probably never will be, a 3D driver for the XGI
|> XP10 chip.
|
| But there are docs and (ahem) sample code for 3D right ? So I wouldn't
| say a definite no :)

There are docs.  Some code was released, but it had to be pulled due to
a license issue.  With all the problems that I've had with the docs for
just 2D (i.e., mode setting), I would be surprised beyond all belief if
they were sufficient to create a 3D driver.
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