Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:05:55 +0200 | From | Gabriel C <> | Subject | Re: intelfb and G33 / Q33 / Q35 chipsets support ? |
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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.
> >>> 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 >
Gabriel
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