G965 framebuffer driver?
Jesse Barnes
jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Thu May 17 09:56:54 PDT 2007
On Thursday, May 17, 2007, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On 5/18/07, Andrew J. Barr <andrew.james.barr at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > This isn't strictly X related but a lot of Intel people are on this
> > list, sooo...
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> > Are there any plans to update the kernel intelfb driver to support the
> > G965? The boot up sequence on my widescreen LCD is very ugly because
> > it's forced to use vesafb, whereas on my PowerBook radeonfb provides
> > native modesetting and hence bootup happens at the native LCD
> > resolution...
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> Speaking as defacto intelfb maintainer I have no plans.
>
> Drrm modesetting should work on 965..
I just tested the tree yesterday and it worked on one of my 965
platforms... I'm not sure if today's checkins are working though, looks
like alanh did some reorganization of the crtc<->fb bindings.
Jesse
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