[Dri-devel] TCL tentatively ready for adventurous testers & developers...

[Keith W. <ke...@tu...>]

Michael wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:28:38AM +0000, Keith Whitwell wrote:
> > Just a note that I've committed the bulk of a functional tcl radeon driver to
> > the new 'tcl-0-0-branch'.  This is basically my code as of about a 10 days
> > ago, which exercises most of the t&l hardware but doesn't have any cool
> > optimizations.  Since then I've been working on cool optimizations, but
> > they're not ready yet.
> 
> Magic :o))

OK.  Things seem to be more or less working now.  Over the next week or so
I'll be finishing and checking in code for the following:
	- Array (rather than vertex) based dma of vertex data.  This will probably
help q3 performance.
	- Fast code for immediate (begin/vertex/end) mode rendering.  

Until then, people who are interested should feel free to check the code out
and have a play.  I don't expect it to be too robust yet, but bug reports are
welcome.  

Anybody doing development on the Radeon (hi Michael, Ian, others) should
probably work off this codebase as it is somewhat divergent from what's on the
trunk in terms of the way state is managed.  I'd very much hope to get this
stabilized and merged sooner rather than later.

A big thanks to ATI for allowing us to release this code and to Tungsten
Graphics for having the vision to persue it.

Keith