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From: "Cédric Cano" <ccano@interfaceconcept.com>
To: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: [PATCH] Big endian support for RV730
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:52:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5506CE.1080501@ic.fr> (raw)

Hi

Here are a couple of patches that enable support for RV730 on big endian architectures. The following items will work :
* KMS
   - correct color in framebuffer
   - interrupts
   - kms blit
   - power management
* DDX
   - kms enabled
   - exa
   - video textures
   - hardware cursor

For the BE modifications, the AMD Linux Engineering team advised me to focus on :
- make sure all the atombios data table accesses are endian safe
- set the display controller swappers properly(http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2011-January/007486.html)
- make sure the appropriate endian swapper is enabled in the texture and vertex fetch constants (see SQ_TEX_RESOURCE_WORD* and SQ_VTX_RESOURCE_WORD* regs)
- make sure the shaders are stored in LE order
- make sure shader constant buffers are stored in LE order
- endian swap IH (interrupt handler) packets
- endian swap the CP command buffers
- endian swap WB (write back) buffers

That's what I tried to do and so far, I have KMS and DDX (with EXA) drivers working. Drivers have been tested on a MPC8640 custom design, with a custom graphics board based on E4690 (RV730). I'm using a custom linux distribution with Xorg 7.6 (xf86-video-ati 6.13.2). The latest kernel available for my board is 2.6.35.6 so I haven't tested with upstream kernel.

I'd also like to test more the ddx driver in order to check the EXA functions do a correct rendering. Is there a driver framework testing, or some kind of unit test you, ddx driver writers, are using ?

Regards,
Cedric Cano

             reply	other threads:[~2011-02-11 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-11  9:52 Cédric Cano [this message]
2011-02-11  9:54 ` [PATCH] Big endian support for RV730 Cédric Cano
2011-02-11  9:55 ` Cédric Cano
2011-02-11 21:35 ` Alex Deucher

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