[Openchrome-devel] Early TTM patch

[Xavier Bachelot]

On 01/26/2011 12:43 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On 19 January 2011 01:20, Xavier Bachelot <xavier at bachelot.org> wrote:
>> Testing on a VX900 laptop with drm-next + your patch + 2 others patches.
>> One adds some Chrome9 pciids (patch 2)
> 
> I suspect that patch is incorrect or at least a bit premature.
> Chrome9 requires changes to the existing code, it won't just be a case
> of adding IDs.
> VIA submitted a totally separate DRM driver (see
> http://marc.info/?a=123010403800004&r=1&w=2) for this hardware.
> 
> If the hardware really is disimilar, then having a separate DRM driver
> probably makes sense (and this probably leads to a different X.org
> driver too). But I'm not sure to what extent that is the case.
>
Chrome9 chipsets are severely restricted currently. adding the pci ids
shouldn't hurt.

Here's the initial commit adding Chrome9 "support" :
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/commit/?id=a16a8a47cdb04e29f5d8ed05403f21714f7aaf9d

Regards,
Xavier