Re: [Dri-devel] XFree4 (finally) works on alpha.. questions

[Daryll S. <da...@pr...>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 01:50:22AM -0600, Davenport wrote:
> I don't know what you did, Daryll et al.. but xfree performs
> beautifully!! Will full accelleration, I am getting NONE of the crashes,
> text target displacement, and color expansion problems I was having.
> And I havn't added a single mb or wmb.  I don't know what changed.. but
> I am venturing to guess that the memory mapping on alpha has undergone a
> change from 3.3x to 3.9.  Who knows.. but it does work..  The high DMA
> activity that caused crash  problem has gone away.  The annoying
> XPutimage corruptions are gone.

Excellent. I did a lot of work on the memory management in the
driver. The XFree code has improved. Lots of stuff. I'm glad it is
behaving nicely!

> The xc/extras/Mesa/src has an X86 directory for 3dnow and mmx stuff.
> Are there sofware equivalents (like gl_mmx_blend_tranparancy or what
> have you?)

As Brian mentioned, you don't need the assembly. You can switch it off
in the Imakefiles. That would be a good patch.

> What's the recommended (stable) kernel release for drm?

I'm using 2.2.12 from Red Hat 6.1. The 2.3 kernels have DRM drivers, but
they need to be updated to what's in XFree and this source tree.

Good luck. I look forward to more reports on your progress.

					     - |Daryll