[Nouveau] [PATCH 00/12] TV-out modesetting kernel patches.

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 01:10:19 PDT 2009


>
>
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:14:56 +0200
> Francisco Jerez <currojerez at riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> This patch series adds TV-out modesetting support to the KMS
>> implementation.
>>
>> I've tried to test it on all the hardware I've got at hand (that is
>> nv11, nv17, nv34, nv35, nv40, nv4b) with every possible output
>> combination; I believe it has reached a mergeable state, however it
>> depends on some commits from drm-next that haven't got into Linus'
>> tree yet, if you agree to merge this they could be cherry-picked, they
>> are:
>>
>> d782c3f95c9263dc0b98e7115f75f1e18b9600b3 drm/mode: add the CVT algorithm in kernel space
>> 2066facca4c7dfe9f5068ece0200a4dbf10f49e1 drm/kms: slave encoder interface.
>> 74bd3c26b90f39b9dcc05c471333da8998572b5d drm: Define DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_TV
>> aeaa1ad3ff32be833680e484d99ec29d892da1ff drm: Define DRM_MODE_SUBCONNECTOR_SCART
>> b6b7902e54c7e8abbc213d8bdc290350c00ccfe5 drm: Define some new standard TV properties.
>>
>> OTOH, I think merging drm-next would do no harm.
>
> That's probably not a good idea. Airlied?

Its up to you how close you run that tree to the main tree. Really
shouldn't be a problem pulling my drm-next tree in.
>
> We could cherry-pick the individual patches if we absolutely have to,
> but I'd like to wait until those patches come via Linus'. In the mean
> time, if you want testing, we could abuse the nouveau/linux-2.6
> master-compat branch, and push the patches there. Or start a feature
> branch.
>
>> PATCH1-2 haven't been
>> pushed there yet, I will forward them to dri-devel@ shortly.
>
> Airlied, do you have an estimate, when all those patches might reach
> Linus? Are they -rc candidates or for the next merge window?
>

drm-next is for the next merge window, it doesn't mean they are unstable
patches they are just adding features instead of fixing regressions at
this stage.

Dave.


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