Re: [osol-discuss] SandyBridge support

2011-01-08 Thread Ken Mays
Mesa 7.10 Release Notes / January 7, 2011 Mesa 7.10 is a new development release supporting the Intel Sandy Bridge IGPs. People who are concerned with stability and reliability should wait for Mesa 7.10.1. New features * GL_ARB_explicit_attrib_location extension (Intel and software

Re: [osol-discuss] SandyBridge support

2011-01-06 Thread ken mays
it rans, it pours. --- On Wed, 1/5/11, Chris Ridd chrisr...@mac.com wrote: From: Chris Ridd chrisr...@mac.com Subject: [osol-discuss] SandyBridge support To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Date: Wednesday, January 5, 2011, 4:17 PM Does Solaris have any enhancements (in public commits

Re: [osol-discuss] SandyBridge support

2011-01-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/ 6/11 06:55 AM, ken mays wrote: I'm reviewing the intel 2.13.903/2.14.x 2D driver/Xserver 1.9.2 package integration for testing. It should be thoroughly unusable, which is why we've not integrated it yet. Current Intel driver versions will *NOT* run on kernels without KMS support.

Re: [osol-discuss] SandyBridge support

2011-01-06 Thread Guido Berhoerster
* Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com [2011-01-06 16:49]: This is also why we're still on Xorg 1.7.7, since the older intel drivers that still work on non-KMS kernels don't support Xorg 1.8 later, and while we could port it, we've been focusing our effort on getting the combined Xorg

Re: [osol-discuss] SandyBridge support

2011-01-06 Thread ken mays
. Thanks Alan for your work and support as well, ~ Ken Mays --- On Thu, 1/6/11, Guido Berhoerster guido+opensolaris@berhoerster.name wrote: From: Guido Berhoerster guido+opensolaris@berhoerster.name Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] SandyBridge support To: Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm

Re: [osol-discuss] SandyBridge support

2011-01-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/ 6/11 02:13 PM, ken mays wrote: I hope that once a fully compliant Xorg 7.6 XNV implementation is in place with the additional kernel-side DRM/KMS updates from the Intel/Oracle team(s), we can test it and work towards a fully supported Intel 2.14.0 driver as well as the Mesa 7.10.x

[osol-discuss] SandyBridge support

2011-01-05 Thread Chris Ridd
Does Solaris have any enhancements (in public commits?) to support the new Intel SandyBridge chips? AIUI some X support for SandyBridge was due in Solaris later this year (2010), so possibly is in S11 Express. But what about support for other SandyBridge features? (UEFI, vector processing