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

[Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>]

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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