r300-based boards... Are they now officially a lost cause?

[Niclas Zeising]

On 11/04/12 23:05, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> 
> In message<50965A0B.3080104 at freebsd.org>,
> Niclas Zeising<zeising at freebsd.org>  wrote:
> 
>>>>> So, um, if I understand correctly "Mesa" currently contains:
>>>>>
>>>>>          1)  code to implement an API called "Mesa3d", and...
>>>>>
>>>>>          2)  code to implement a rather different API called "Gallium3D"
>>>>> ...
>>>> ...  As far as I know, this API has always been unsupported on
>>>> FreeBSD (this might be completely wrong though), so the chances are you
>>>> are not using it.
>>>
>>> By "this API" I assume that you mean "Gallium", correct?
>> Yes.
> 
> So that has never been supported on FreeBSD??
> 
> I'm a little surprised because from what little I read about it, the Gallium
> approach is rather better.

I think one of the big issues here is that we lack kernel code needed to
make gallium work. I haven't looked into the details though.
Regards!
-- 
Niclas Zeising