Re: [Mesa3d-users] Mesa/Gallium Cell Driver 0.4 issues

[Brian P. <br...@vm...>]

Marcus Mae wrote:
> Hello, Mesa3d users,
> 
> Thanks for high-quality software, yesterday I've succeeded with
> building the latest git snap of Mesa/Gallium Cell Driver. Everything
> is OK with building, except two small issues: missing ";" after
> cell_velems_state struct definition in cell_context.h

I'll fix that.

> and missing
> libidentity.a target, that solved simply by performing make in
> src/gallium/driver/identity folder.

I'll add that to the linux-cell config file.


> With glxinfo it describes itself as
> 
> OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on Cell
> OpenGL version string: 1.5 Mesa 7.9-devel
> 
> However, experimenting with driver on PS3 appears to be one big issue
> for me. First, running OpenGL apps returns "PPU: Multiple rendering
> contexts not yet supported on Cell.",

Yeah, that's a known short-coming of the driver.


> then I was not able to connnect
> x11vnc server to E16 desktop session running on gallium drivers.

I've never tried the Cell driver with VNC.


> And
> finally, none of progs/demos are working returning "unknown Opcode
> 0x00" for all 6 spus. So, what could be wrong with it, is current git
> main branch broken?? Does it work for you, what versions have you
> tested?

The Cell driver was broken a few weeks ago because of some new gallium 
architectural changes.  I haven't had time to update the driver.

I'd suggest using the Mesa "7.8" branch in the mean time.  The Cell 
driver on that branch should be fine.

-Brian