From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 12 07:48:16 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 AEF9916A4CE; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 07:48:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shockwave.systems.pipex.net (shockwave.systems.pipex.net [62.241.160.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2418543D2D; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 07:48:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keith@tungstengraphics.com) Received: from tungstengraphics.com (81-178-243-177.dsl.pipex.com [81.178.243.177]) by shockwave.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA59A1C0033C; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:48:09 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <411B20B9.5040101@tungstengraphics.com> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:48:09 +0100 From: Keith Whitwell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <20040811110731.GA74988@regency.nsu.ru> <200408111220.11512.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200408111220.11512.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:00:15 +0000 cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org cc: eta@lclark.edu cc: dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net cc: Alexey Dokuchaev 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: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 07:48:16 -0000 John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 11 August 2004 07:07 am, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > >>Hi there, >> >>Judging from /sys/dev/drm/ contents, and listed kernel options in NOTES, >>there's currently evidence of support for i810/830 chips in FreeBSD, >>which (I suspect) is the probable reason why DRI is not enabled on my >>box (FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT from yesterday, latest X.Org). I also found >>traces of i810/830 support in FDo CVS >>(http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/dri/drm/bsd/i830/), >>getting me to the fact that i8x0 files were removed from the BSD side, >>since they were not actually ported. (Unfinished? broken? unstable?) > > > The i830 DRM stuff is ported in a branch of DRI, but it's not in DRI head > because of a security problem with the code. And there were some persistent issues with older hardware that I never resolved to my satisfaction. The new 'i915' code fixes these problems and is generally much cleaner - it should be the focus for intel chipset development from here out. I don't know any reason why it shouldn't be possible to apply the freebsd changes from the branch to this code on the head. Keith