From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 11 21:02:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2338416A4CE; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:02:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from holly.csn.ul.ie (holly.csn.ul.ie [136.201.105.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9038143D5A; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:02:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from airlied@linux.ie) Received: from skynet.csn.ul.ie (skynet [136.201.105.2]) by holly.csn.ul.ie (Postfix) with ESMTP id D09579383B; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:02:05 +0000 (Eire) Received: by skynet.csn.ul.ie (Postfix, from userid 2139) id 40417EA24; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:01:50 +0100 (IST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skynet.csn.ul.ie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DFF77A0E; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:01:50 +0100 (IST) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:01:50 +0100 (IST) From: Dave Airlie X-X-Sender: airlied@skynet To: Eric Anholt In-Reply-To: <1092255440.884.3.camel@leguin> Message-ID: References: <20040811110731.GA74988@regency.nsu.ru> <200408111220.11512.jhb@FreeBSD.org><1092255440.884.3.camel@leguin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:00:15 +0000 cc: Charles Sprickman cc: DRI cc: John Baldwin cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No DRM kernel support for i830 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:02:18 -0000 > > 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