From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22C=2E_Bergstr=F6m=22?= Subject: Porting nouveau/ttm/drm to FreeBSD/OpenSolaris Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:25:16 +0300 Message-ID: <4B5ACE8C.40907@pathscale.com> References: <1262755950.2346.5.camel@araqiel> <20100107005827.466c968e@daedalus.pq.iki.fi> <1262829587.2486.42.camel@balrog.2hip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1262829587.2486.42.camel-it3iGQysvyiGwK4wanZbFg@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nouveau-bounces-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org Errors-To: nouveau-bounces-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org Cc: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org List-Id: nouveau.vger.kernel.org Hi all, One of our (PathScale) engineers is planning to port nouveau and all dependencies to OpenSolaris. We have two routes we can take and would like some feedback from the community. 1) There's an existing drm without ttm that was done by the FreeBSD developers. Would anyone from the fbsd team like to go over some of the trouble they've had in porting ttm? 2) The engineer doing the work is much more familiar with Intel GEM and has said the following (which I don't honestly know if it's true or not) a. Intel GEM surely will continue to be supported b. It's already available on OpenSolaris c. More portable than ttm d. GEM doesn't have support for nvidia cards and is missing some important features. (For OpenSolaris he says those can be added and is less effort than porting ttm) e. Is probably better performance compared to ttm As some of you may know our interest is currently only in executing cuda-like kernels. If it doesn't add a substantial amount of effort we would like our efforts to also benefit others. (Specifically fbsd and the graphics contexts) nouveau itself should be relatively easy to port, but what information do others have with regards to the surrounding dependencies. Thanks! ./Christopher