i830 raw mode driver

[Alan Hourihane]

On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 21:34 +1100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >
> > Alan's on holidays at the moment, so I can't answer directly for him,
> > but to say that it sounds like from your description that you've got
> > some reservations about having it go straight into the trunk.
> 
> Well my reservations are about how much support I can give to people
> testing things, but I would like the code to be available to people
> that want to use it or improve it....
> 
> > Until then, do you think the code's in a state that could be merged but
> > disabled by default (ie an option to turn it on, rather than one to turn
> > it off)?  Or is it too raw for that?
> 
> Well at the moment the option is to keep it off by default, so that's
> fine, and it only intercepts things in a few places, so it probably is
> quite mergeable...  I might get to fix up any small issues I find with
> it in the next while...
> 
> >
> > Is this something you're thinking of for 7.1, or to hold over for the
> > release after that?
> 
> Might want to waste for post 7.1,... I suppose we can see what Alan thinks....

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the patches.

Post 7.1 sounds great to me.

Alan.