kernel modesetting progress report....

[Maarten Maathuis]

On 2/28/08, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
> So just to let people know where kernel modesetting is getting to and
>  what I'm up to with it..
>
>  So I really want to ship something in Fedora 9 with kernel modesetting
>  in it, whether this is a default or a special boot option for the user
>  I won't decide for a while.
>
>  But with this in mind I've checked in bunch of changes to the
>  modesetting drm to make modesetting optional for i915, you now load
>  the i915 module with modeset=1 to enable it.
>  I've also created an intel-kernelmode branch which is based on the
>  intel-batchbuffer branch, with fairly clean modesetting integration.
>  It still needs work to fixup a few features but I'm going to work my
>  way through the list.
>  (it needs fixes for rotation + video at the moment)
>
>  The DDX driver can detect whether modesetting is enabled in the drm
>  and does the right thing for each case.
>
>  I checked a patch into the server to allow the crtc callback to work,
>  I think this breaks ABI with xf86Crtc.c users, need to confirm what
>  the proper action for this is.
>
>  Dave.
>
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Please don't let any api freezing depend on fedora core, at least give
external parties time to play with it once it's reasonably stable,
this will undoubtely reveal limitations. It should be in mainline drm
well before api freezing it.