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>
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> > 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
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