[Intel-gfx] Request for testing

[Jesse Barnes]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:16:42 +0200
Dariush Forouher <dariush at forouher.de> wrote:

> 
> 
> Jesse Barnes schrieb:
> > Eric asked me to track drm-intel patches while he was out this
> > week, so I just dumped a bunch in the drm-intel-next branch of my
> > drm-intel tree at kernel.org
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/drm-intel.git
> > 
> > It includes several patchset that have been baking awhile:
> >   - reset support for 965 (from Ben and myself)
> >   - memory shrinker/madvise support (from Chris)
> >   - Ironlake fixes (from Zhenyu)
> >   - misc bug fixes (mostly me fixing my own bugs)
> > 
> > So please pull it down and hammer on it.  Hopefully the merge window
> > will still be open next week so we can get this set into
> > 2.6.32.	
> 
> Tried it on top of 2.6.31 on my Dell Laptop with an 965GM (using xorg
> driver 2.8.1).
> 
> I don't observe any regressions up to now. KDE4 (with effects
> enabled), mplayer and suspend2ram all work fine (as they did before
> with vanilla 2.6.31).
> 
> One question: Should framebuffer compression work? Xorg.log seems to
> indicate that it doesn't:
> 
> (**) intel(0): Framebuffer compression disabled
> 
> Is framebuffer compression not supported on my GPU or did I miss
> something?

That's just the 2D driver's version of FBC.  If you're running with KMS
the kernel will take care of it (you shouldn't see any messages about
it).

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center