[Intel-gfx] GM45/G45 status

[Keith Packard]

On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 10:19 +0200, Martin Olsson wrote:

> 1) I was under the impression that with DRI=false in xorg.conf then
> the libdrm bits is not used? Did I just misunderstand that?

libdrm is always used; that's the API for managing the ring. DRI=false
means to not use the kernel module and do all of the ring management
from user mode. This is a change from how things used to work.

> 2) When I build the drm tree I see drm.ko and i810.ko but with a
> G45 I won't be using i810.ko right? For G45 I typically will use
> i915.ko, on? Is that not built from this drm tree?

the drm tree has stale kernel bits; you would want to use either the
drm-intel-next or drm-next kernel trees to get current kernel bits. But,
the driver should work correctly with your existing kernel module.

> It says I should copy the *.ko into:
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/char/drm/
> but I believe the target location was updated in 2.6.27 to (maybe mention both
> locations for a while but certain .27 location should be mentioned at least):
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/

Yeah, just don't copy them at all -- the kernel bits in the drm tree are
not up to date.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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