> >>> On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 15:51 +0000, James Simmons wrote: > >>>> Hi! > >>>> > >>>> I just finished the KMS/UMS reordering. Please test my branch to > >>>> make sure their are no regressions. Currently no really KMS code has > >>>> been > >>>> added just yet. Minus any regressions this wraps up phase one. > >>>> > >>>> http://svn.openchrome.org/svn/branches/kms_branch > >>> > >>> Hi James, > >>> > >>> This sounds like excellent work. Thanks for taking on the project! > >>> > >>> For the VX855-based OLPC XO-1.5, if I understand it correctly, we > >>> currently cannot use DRM because there is no Chrome9 support in the > >>> kernel. I guess that means that your work on this front is inaccessible > >>> to us. > >>> > >> At this point, drm support is not strictly needed, as the UMS code as > >> just been separated, but the driver should behave just like it was > >> before the refactoring. It will be though for KMS. > > > > Having trouble understanding what you mean here. > > > > You are stating that the driver will continue to work on VX855 (with > > mode setting in userspace, as it is currently)? > > > > I gathered that much. My question is whether KMS will become available > > on VX855/Chrome9. It will solve a handful of headaches for OLPC. > > > ok, sorry, I misunderstood your question too. > > About Chrome9 drm, I don't know what James' plan are.
I plan to support KMS on any platform I can get my hands on docs too. _______________________________________________ Openchrome-devel mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-devel
