Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:01:50 +0100 (IST)
From:      Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
To:        Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: No DRM kernel support for i830 ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408112159510.29719@skynet>
In-Reply-To: <1092255440.884.3.camel@leguin>
References:  <20040811110731.GA74988@regency.nsu.ru> <200408111220.11512.jhb@FreeBSD.org><1092255440.884.3.camel@leguin>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>
> No, it doesnt.  Actually, the Intel driver going forward currently is
> the i915 driver, which is going to be in the next X.Org release, is
> apparently secure, is ported to FreeBSD (untested iirc -- I'm setting up
> a machine now), and supports i830-i915.  There's been a suggestion that
> i915 could be extended to support i810 as well, which would deal with
> the security model issues that I suspect are the same on i810 as i830.
> That would be the hardest but perhaps best option.  The alternate route
> is to just port the i810 driver as-is.

The i915 is ported to FreeBSD but I've hadn't the time or FreeBSD skills
to actually get it working :-) (I'd suspect my pci_alloc_consistent port
isn't correct, ...)

porting the i810 driver probably isn't a huge amount of work but I doubt
I'll have any time to do it ....

Dave.

-- 
David Airlie, Software Engineer
http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie
pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.LNX.4.58.0408112159510.29719>