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From: Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Intel Linux Graphics on FreeBSD?
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On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 10:05 -0500, Jeff Cross wrote:
> This may have already hit the list, but has anyone seen the
> intellinuxgraphics.org driver site that Intel has produced.  It appears
> they have created drivers for their cards for Linux.
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a work in progress to port these to
> FreeBSD?  I run a laptop with an i810 video chipset and this would come
> in very handy.
> 
> It appears they have an X.org 2D driver, a DRM kernel module, and a Mesa
> 3D GL driver for the following cards/chipsets:
> 
> 965G, 965Q, 946GZ, 945G, 945GM, 915G, 915GM, 865G, 855GM, 852GM, 845G,
> i830M, 815, 810, 810-DC100.
> 
> I am by far no kernel hacker or driver specialist.  This is way out of
> my league.  I just wanted to see if anyone was working on porting these
> to FreeBSD or if anyone out here in FreeBSD land had even heard of it.
> I hadn't before today...  Playing Wolfenstein on the laptop would be
> nice! :)
> 
> I look forward to any discussion on these drivers and an effort to port
> to FreeBSD.

Take a look at the Development Team[*] for the open source linux
graphics driver, and you'll notice that one of the FreeBSD developers is
listed there.  I've CC'ed him.

[*] http://intellinuxgraphics.org/team.html

-- 
Joel