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

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>]

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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