This might be the opinion of a completely non educated end user but it seems that an intel specific drm and other bits (xorg, mesa) would be somewhat of a maintenance waste.
TI-OMAP 3xxx and a couple of other arm processors use similar SGX-5xx graphics cores. IIRC arm is often little endian so perhaps a unified driver would be easier in the long term. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Greg KH <g...@kroah.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Here's 5 patches that add the Intel Poulsbo/Morrestown DRM driver to the > kernel tree. > > There are 4 patches that make changes to the DRM core, and one patch > that adds the DRM driver itself. The driver is added to the > drivers/staging/ directory because it is not the "final" driver that > Intel wishes to support over time. The userspace api is going to > change, and work is currently underway to hook up properly with the > memory management system. > > However this work is going to take a while, and in the meantime, users > want to run Linux on this kind of hardware. I'd really like to add the > driver to the staging tree, but it needs these core DRM changes in order > to get it to work properly. > > Originally I had a patch that basically duplicated the existing DRM > core, and embedded it with these changes and the PSB driver together > into one big mess of a kernel module. But Richard convinced me that > this wasn't the "nicest" thing to do, and he did work on the PSB code > and dug out these older DRM patches. > > The only thing that looks a bit "odd" to me is the unlocked ioctl patch, > Thomas, is that thing really correct? > > David, I'd be glad to take the DRM changes through the staging tree, but > only if you ack them. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel