Re: Xvideo acceleration: GATOS for PPC?
Josh Huber wrote:
>
> Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch> writes:
>
> > Using DMA for the transfer _might_ make the difference, but there'd
> > have to be DRI for mach64 first.
>
> Ah, I see.
>
> and I quote from the dri web site:
>
> * There currently is no working Mach64 (Rage Pro) support. A
> Mach64 branch exists, but work on it was never completed. We are
> looking for developers to complete the Mach64 work. This is good
> beginner work since it is relatively easy to complete and you
> can look at Utah-GLX for example code.
>
> Maybe I'll take a look if I get some free time?
Might be a good idea, check the dri-devel archives for recent discussion about
this.
> > Does that work in depth 16?
>
> It doesn't work quite right. As I said earlier, it looks like the
> palette/colormap is just off, otherwise it works great. At least the
> video is legible.
The way I fixed it for r128 is to disable byte-swapping for the framebuffer
while transferring the data.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
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