[Openchrome-devel] Please test KMS branch

Daniel Drake dsd
Tue Jan 11 13:19:11 PST 2011


On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 21:54 +0100, Xavier Bachelot wrote:
> On 01/11/2011 09:08 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 15:51 +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> 	I just finished the KMS/UMS reordering. Please test my branch to 
> >> make sure their are no regressions. Currently no really KMS code has been 
> >> added just yet. Minus any regressions this wraps up phase one. 
> >>
> >> 		http://svn.openchrome.org/svn/branches/kms_branch
> > 
> > Hi James,
> > 
> > This sounds like excellent work. Thanks for taking on the project!
> > 
> > For the VX855-based OLPC XO-1.5, if I understand it correctly, we
> > currently cannot use DRM because there is no Chrome9 support in the
> > kernel. I guess that means that your work on this front is inaccessible
> > to us.
> > 
> At this point, drm support is not strictly needed, as the UMS code as
> just been separated, but the driver should behave just like it was
> before the refactoring. It will be though for KMS.

Having trouble understanding what you mean here.

You are stating that the driver will continue to work on VX855 (with
mode setting in userspace, as it is currently)?

I gathered that much. My question is whether KMS will become available
on VX855/Chrome9. It will solve a handful of headaches for OLPC.

Thanks,
Daniel






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