[Openchrome-devel] Please test KMS branch

[James Simmons]

> >>> On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 15:51 +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> >>>> Hi!
> >>>>
> >>>> 	I just finished the KMS/UMS reordering. Please test my branch to 
> >>>> make sure their are no regressions. Currently no really KMS code has been 
> >>>> added just yet. Minus any regressions this wraps up phase one. 
> >>>>
> >>>> 		http://svn.openchrome.org/svn/branches/kms_branch
> >>>
> >>> Hi James,
> >>>
> >>> This sounds like excellent work. Thanks for taking on the project!
> >>>
> >>> For the VX855-based OLPC XO-1.5, if I understand it correctly, we
> >>> currently cannot use DRM because there is no Chrome9 support in the
> >>> kernel. I guess that means that your work on this front is inaccessible
> >>> to us.
> >>>
> >> At this point, drm support is not strictly needed, as the UMS code as
> >> just been separated, but the driver should behave just like it was
> >> before the refactoring. It will be though for KMS.
> > 
> > Having trouble understanding what you mean here.
> > 
> > You are stating that the driver will continue to work on VX855 (with
> > mode setting in userspace, as it is currently)?
> > 
> > I gathered that much. My question is whether KMS will become available
> > on VX855/Chrome9. It will solve a handful of headaches for OLPC.
> > 
> ok, sorry, I misunderstood your question too.
> 
> About Chrome9 drm, I don't know what James' plan are.

I plan to support KMS on any platform I can get my hands on docs too.