Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:24:29 +0100 From: Keith Whitwell <keith@tungstengraphics.com> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: No DRM kernel support for i830 ? Message-ID: <411B293D.9060809@tungstengraphics.com> In-Reply-To: <20040812023911.GB89594@regency.nsu.ru> References: <20040811110731.GA74988@regency.nsu.ru> <200408111220.11512.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040812023911.GB89594@regency.nsu.ru>
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Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:20:11PM -0400, 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. > > > Thanks. That's a good info to start with. May I ask you the details of > security problem you've mentioned, or at least some pointer in this > direction? Appropriate maillist and/or google reference would be fine, > I guess. In general, don't bother with the i830.o kernel module or driver any longer, they're deprecated in favour of the new, cleaner implementation in the i915 drivers. Look at the changes on the i865-agp branch and pull those into the i915 driver. Keith
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