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Re: DRM/KMS: vmwgfx driver is now available



PHO <pho%cielonegro.org@localhost> wrote:
>On 7/16/23 01:24, Robert Swindells wrote:
>> 
>> PHO <pho%cielonegro.org@localhost> wrote:
>>> I've been working on vmwgfx driver, a driver for VMware virtualized GPU.
>>> It was partly ported to NetBSD but wasn't buildable, and now it builds
>>> and actually works. (Thank you riastradh@, your prior work helped
>>> tremendously. I don't think I could do this without it.)
>> 
>> [snip]
>> 
>>> Note that you need to update your pkgsrc tree to try the driver, as I
>>> fixed a few things that needed fixing. Also the base X.org is not
>>> capable of making use of the driver because its Mesa is built without
>>> libxatracker. You need the modular one from pkgsrc.
>> 
>> Which bits of Mesa does it need apart from xa?
>
> Only this change:
> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2023/07/14/msg278732.html

Which drivers or compiler backends does it use?


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