[arch-general] Gallium by default for radeon?
Hey everybody, I wondered whether we should switch the default radeon driver stack over to gallium3d. I've been running gallium3d for a few months now and with every stack rebuild from git it only gets faster and neater. I haven't encountered any stability issues yet (or at least not any the standard drivers did not have). I think the speed and OpenGL compatibility are well worth it for our users. Since I'm toying around quite a lot with games and Ogre3D I know that shader support and overall speed now make the radeon + gallium3d drivers a viable replacement for the rather unlikeable catalyst drivers, even for gaming. For those who want to try it, build your gallium stack using my AUR package (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38090). Upstream says that almost all current development efforts flow into gallium3d and radeon KMS. Perhaps we should take the hint? What do you think? -- Sven-Hendrik
Does this enable r600g? I think it would be great for r300g to be used by default but r600g is not there yet.
I'm wondering how was it going with dri and xorg state trackers in gallium3d stack on ATI chips? Actually AFAIK the mesa stack is ready for r300g, but there are a lot of work need to be done for other parts(at least testing work). For r600g, it's only get quite initial texture support recently. And the interface of it is changing dramatically at present, so it's far from being a default option. On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Muhammed Uluyol <uluyol0@gmail.com> wrote:
Does this enable r600g? I think it would be great for r300g to be used by default but r600g is not there yet.
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Muhammed Uluyol
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Sven-Hendrik Haase
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Ye Li