[Dri-devel] Getting the via drm module into CVS.

[Thomas H. <th...@sh...>]

Hi!

Via have, some time ago, released a drm module which seems quite clean=20
and a dri / OpenGL implementation which Alan Cox fixed up some time ago=20
and which is downloadable from your site. I don't think it has been=20
ported to be compatible with dri CVS though.

The thing with the drm module seems to be another story. A lot of people=20
are patching their kernels with Via's source and are using it together=20
with Via's precompiled via_dri.so.

Also there is an ongoing project, (unichrome at sourceforge) the goal of=20
which is to develop and try to fix up the via X drivers, and submit=20
relevant patches to the proper code maintainers. Currently we are=20
focusing on the via XFree86 driver, and an XvMC extension for the HW=20
Mpeg2 decoder (Which uses DRI /  DRM for register / memory mapping and=20
resource locking). But some small changes have been made also to the Via=20
drm driver (Wait on vblank support).

At this point it would be very nice to have the via drm module in dri=20
CVS, so that it could eventually be included in the kernel. While the=20
via_dri.so OpenGL driver might not be there yet, the drm module might be.

Please advice on how to proceed and what is needed to make this happen.

Best regards
Thomas Hellstr=F6m

=20