From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Wilson Subject: Re: Intel Legacy Driver / GEM Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:29:27 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4CC1B49B.9050402@pcbsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com [192.55.52.88]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C059E7C8 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:29:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4CC1B49B.9050402@pcbsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: Kris Moore , intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:58:19 -0400, Kris Moore wrote: > Somebody recently pointed us to the intel-legacy driver which is GEM-less: > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ickle/xf86-video-intel/commit/?h=legacy > > In the FreeBSD/PC-BSD world this interests us quite a bit, since we > don't have > GEM / KMS in our kernel as of yet, and have plenty of users > with Intel video hardware. What I'm wondering is how long do you plan on > maintaining this driver, or are you going to update it further at all? None whatsoever. You're welcome to use it for as long as you deem necessary, but you are on your own. There are a number of more interesting approaches [than legacy], but ultimately you need a dynamic memory manager. The most obvious person to talk to is Owain Ainsworth as he seems to be single-handedly writing GEM for OpenBSD. -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre