Bug 842194 - Enable build of radeonsi driver
Summary: Enable build of radeonsi driver
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mesa
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-07-23 01:51 UTC by Shawn
Modified: 2012-08-02 17:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-02 17:01:52 UTC
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Description Shawn 2012-07-23 01:51:03 UTC
Description of problem:

The new AMD Southern Islands video cards HD77xx have a new architecture and so require a new driver in order to do any thing beyond basic 2D. This driver is the radeonsi. This is a Gallium driver.  This driver while a work in progress does already exist in the mesa-20120717 source tar ball. Currently the spec file does not enable building this driver. To enable it it might be as simple as changing


--with-gallium-drivers=%{?with_vmware:svga,}r300,r600,nouveau,swrast

to 

--with-gallium-drivers=%{?with_vmware:svga,}r300,r600,nouveau,swrast,radionsi

and then adding an entry to the spec file down in %files for it. 



I am sorry I don't have a better understanding of the video stack or I would have tried to go farther before filing this. If you can build it on koji I can grab it from there and try it out before you push it to rawhide. 

More info here.

http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA4NzM
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyNTA

Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2012-08-02 17:01:52 UTC
* Mon Jul 23 2012 Adam Jackson <ajax> 8.1-0.13
- Build radeonsi (#842194)


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