Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Barnes <> | Subject | Re: intelfb and G33 / Q33 / Q35 chipsets support ? | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:04:47 -0700 |
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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.
> > The main problem with intelfb is it trips up the userspace X drivers a > > lot and generally break things.. > > Really ? I didn't knew that.
Yeah it's been an ongoing source of problems...
Jesse
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