Re: intelfb and G33 / Q33 / Q35 chipsets support ?

From: Gabriel C
Date: Tue Apr 29 2008 - 22:17:15 EST


Gabriel C wrote:
> Jesse Barnes wrote:
>> On Monday, April 28, 2008 6:24 pm Gabriel C wrote:
>>> Dave Airlie wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Gabriel C wrote:
>>>>> Hello ,
>>>>>
>>>>> are there any plans to add G33 / Q33 / Q35 chipsets support for the
>>>>> intelfb driver ? Is this driver still maintained ?
>>>>>
>>>>> ( I'm not really sure who maintains this driver so I've add peoples to
>>>>> CC I saw worked on it , I've also added Wang Zhenyu to CC while he added
>>>>> this support for AGP )
>>>> Intel fb is unmaintained (well I've done trivial fixes in the past), and
>>>> I'd rather not add new chipset support to it.
>>>>
>>>> We are working (RH and Intel) on a new kernel modesetting layer which
>>>> will allow fbs integrated with proper memory management and support all
>>>> intel hw,
>>> Good news :)
>>>
>>> Are there any patch(es) / git tree one could try out ?
>> See the modesetting-101 branch of git://git.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm.
>> It's a bit rough in spots but the i915 driver should be pretty close to
>> feature parity with the Intel X driver at this point.
>
> Thx , I will try out the tree.
>

modesetting-101 does not compile on current git , NOPAGE_SIGBUS , nopage and friends gone.


Gabriel
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