kernel modesetting progress report....

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
> So just to let people know where kernel modesetting is getting to and
>  what I'm up to with it..
>
>  So I really want to ship something in Fedora 9 with kernel modesetting
>  in it, whether this is a default or a special boot option for the user
>  I won't decide for a while.
>
>  But with this in mind I've checked in bunch of changes to the
>  modesetting drm to make modesetting optional for i915, you now load
>  the i915 module with modeset=1 to enable it.
>  I've also created an intel-kernelmode branch which is based on the
>  intel-batchbuffer branch, with fairly clean modesetting integration.
>  It still needs work to fixup a few features but I'm going to work my
>  way through the list.
>  (it needs fixes for rotation + video at the moment)
>
>  The DDX driver can detect whether modesetting is enabled in the drm
>  and does the right thing for each case.
>
>  I checked a patch into the server to allow the crtc callback to work,
>  I think this breaks ABI with xf86Crtc.c users, need to confirm what
>  the proper action for this is.

I think it would also be nice to add some additional abstraction to
deal with outputs that have multiple encoders associated with them
(e.g., DVI-I).  Although as discussed previously, we can probably just
add internal abstraction and add output controls to deal with this.

Alex