Epic: 3D Acceleration DRM/KMS (Port Linux/FreeBSD DRM drivers to Haiku)

[kallisti5]

The Linux/FreeBSD DRM drivers need ported to Haiku. This will involve writing some compatibility layer for drm.

Layers:

• kernel DRM drivers
  • ​https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm
  • Compatibility layers need written. FreeBSD has some which could be used as a reference. (they use Linux drm drivers)
  • We also already have some FreeBSD compatibility layers used by our network drivers which could help.
• libdrm ​https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm
  • Compiles today via meson -D intel=false and faking major/minor/makedev functionality.
    • intel=false disables libdrm_intel which is only used by i915 (this bypasses the need for libpciaccess)
  • Accesses kernel drm drivers via major/minor/makedev
  • major/minor/makedev needs converted to a haiku name-based standard (/dev/graphics/drm/radeon_hd_0800000 or something?)
• mesa ​https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa
  • uses libdrm_* access to get to drm drivers
  • grep for dep_libdrm_ in mesa source for examples

Key points:

• Ideally work should remain out of tree, or drm graphics drivers should be able to "coexist" in our source tree with our native ones until they reach a critical mass.
• Video modesetting is in scope via KMS as well.
• This is a big project with two halfs.
  • DRM drivers in our kernel
  • Mesa leveraging our DRM drivers