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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:16:39 +0200
From: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
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To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
CC: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Gabriel C <crazy@frugalware.org>,
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       Wang Zhenyu <zhenyu.z.wang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: intelfb and G33 / Q33 / Q35 chipsets support ?
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Gabriel C wrote:
> 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.
> 

modesetting-101 does not compile on current git , NOPAGE_SIGBUS , nopage and friends gone.


Gabriel