Re: [patch 0/5] Intel Poulsbo/Morrestown DRM driver and DRM core changes

[Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>]

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Greg,

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:27:19AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:03:09PM -0400, Sindhudweep Sarkar wrote:
> > TI-OMAP 3xxx and a couple of other arm processors use similar SGX-5xx
> > graphics cores. IIRC arm is often little endian so perhaps a unified
> > driver would be easier in the long term.
> 
> Long term lots of things are good.
> 
> But how do I get my laptop that I currently have right now up and
> running properly with linux in a better-than-800x600-framebuffer mode?
> 
> That's why I need/want this driver now, there are hundreds of thousands
> of these types of laptops in the pipeline to users and I want them to
> run Linux, not be forced to run some other operating system...

By the same logic, would you support including the proprietary NVIDIA
driver while we wait for Nouveau to catch up?

Cheers,
Daniel

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