Re: [Dri-devel] Re: SIS630 - Support?

[Felix <fx...@gm...>]

I happened to be be looking for information about this a few days ago
and could recover the address from my history:

http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsis630.shtml

It contains very detailed information about latest driver development.
Sorry, 2D only.

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:26:59 +0100
José Fonseca <j_r...@ya...> wrote:

> Andreas,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 06:57:52PM +0200, Andreas Allacher wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Will you add (or will there be in future) also DRI-support for the
> >graphic device SIS630. If yes do you know a not exactly date?
> 
> I'm not 100% sure of the current state of the SIS chips DRI drivers so
> I'm CC'ing my answer to the dri-devel mailing list so that others can
> corroborate.
> 
> AFAIK, there is (or was) support for the SIS 3xx drivers in the initial XFree 4.0.x releases (may even 4.1.x), but the driver never got ported to the new Mesa 4.x driver architecture due to lack of people interested. I recall a newbie ofered him self to try even without the specs, but I don't know if anything ever got made at all.
> 
> So in summary, if you want DRI you have to stick with older XFree86
> versions, unless someone steps into porting the deprecated DRI driver.
> 
> Personally I do not have time to do it myself as I already have my hands
> full with other things, but I wouldn't mind helping by guiding all the
> way if somebody was willing to code it.
> 
> Jose Fonseca
> 
> PS: In case you don't know it, Thomas Winischhofer has lot of info
> regarding the FB and XFree86 SIS drivers at
> http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsis630.shtml and
> http://www.winischhofer.net/sisdri.shtml
> 
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