[Gta04-owner] Fwd: [beagleboard] SGX drivers on Kernel 3.8.13

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

This explains a Little why i Could not yet make the Sgx drivers work for 3.12...

I.e. We have to wait for TI (or the fsf Reverse Engineering Project)

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> Von: Gerald Coley <gerald at beagleboard.org>
> Datum: 25. Oktober 2013 14:44:20 MESZ
> An: "beagleboard at googlegroups.com" <beagleboard at googlegroups.com>
> Betreff: Re: [beagleboard] SGX drivers on Kernel 3.8.13
> Antwort an: beagleboard at googlegroups.com
> 
> Life is not always fair, especially when SW is involved. The new DRM architecture introduced by the Linux folks in the 3.8 Kernel broke it. I agree, that is not fair.
> 
> 
> Gerald
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Giuseppe Iellamo <peppedx at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It seems to me not very fair to say we have a board with a 3d accelerator, we sell it and we won't give you the driver nor the specs to use it...
>> 
>> To my understanding with 3.2 kernel it was working. Any advice on how to resume a working 3.2 distribution I may use?
>> 
>> Il giorno giovedì 24 ottobre 2013 22:21:12 UTC+2, Gerald ha scritto:
>>> 
>>> As I understand it, the DRM driver is not compatible with the old SGX frame buffer architecture. TI tells us they are not rewriting the code for 3.8. Not sure about future kernel releases. Best bet would be to ask TI on this one.
>>> 
>>> Gerald
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:39 PM,  <mail.ar... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> What exactly is missing? I have read something about that the clock for GPU is not enabled. Can't we fix this or can't we get TI to fix this?
>>>> 
>>>> Regards
>>>> Alexander
>>>> 
>>>> Am Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2013 15:07:11 UTC+2 schrieb RobertCNelson:
>>>>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:10 AM,  <mail.ar... at gmail.com> wrote: 
>>>>> > Hello, 
>>>>> > 
>>>>> > I am currently trying to get OpenGL ES running on the Bone, but I get some 
>>>>> > problems with the kernel modules. I already posted on the TI formus. Maybe 
>>>>> > someone can help: 
>>>>> > http://e2e.ti.com/support/arm/sitara_arm/f/791/t/298596.aspx 
>>>>> 
>>>>> See a few of the other threads in this forum for the full details on 
>>>>> this.. Essentially we do not have the needed bits from TI at this 
>>>>> time.. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards, 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Robert Nelson 
>>>>> http://www.rcn-ee.com/
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