[Intel-gfx] Intel Legacy Driver / GEM

[Chris Wilson]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:58:19 -0400, Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org> wrote:
> Somebody recently pointed us to the intel-legacy driver which is GEM-less:
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ickle/xf86-video-intel/commit/?h=legacy
> 
> In the FreeBSD/PC-BSD world this interests us quite a bit, since we
> don't have
> GEM / KMS in our kernel as of yet, and have plenty of users
> with Intel video hardware. What I'm wondering is how long do you plan on
> maintaining this driver, or are you going to update it further at all?

None whatsoever. You're welcome to use it for as long as you deem
necessary, but you are on your own. There are a number of more interesting
approaches [than legacy], but ultimately you need a dynamic memory manager.

The most obvious person to talk to is Owain Ainsworth as he seems to be
single-handedly writing GEM for OpenBSD.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre