Re: intelfb and G33 / Q33 / Q35 chipsets support ?

[Gabriel C]

Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Gabriel C wrote:
> 
>> Hello ,
>>
>> are there any plans to add G33 / Q33 / Q35 chipsets support for the intelfb driver ?
>> Is this driver still maintained ?
>>
>> ( I'm not really sure who maintains this driver so I've add peoples to CC I saw worked on it ,
>> I've also added Wang Zhenyu to CC while he added this support for AGP )
>>
> 
> Intel fb is unmaintained (well I've done trivial fixes in the past), and 
> I'd rather not add new chipset support to it.
> 
> We are working (RH and Intel) on a new kernel modesetting layer which will 
> allow fbs integrated with proper memory management and support all intel 
> hw, 

Good news :)

Are there any patch(es) / git tree one could try out ?

> 
> The main problem with intelfb is it trips up the userspace X drivers a lot 
> and generally break things..

Really ? I didn't knew that. 

> 
> Dave.


Gabriel
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