2012/2/16 James Simmons <[email protected]>
> > As everyone here as seen a new release, 0.2.905 was done. Now that > has > been done we can set our goal to the next release 0.3.0 which is currently > the kms_branch. My goal is have a release by June 1. The targets for next > release will be RandR support and well as having KMS support. After the > xorg driver starts funneling into distros we can then think about merging > the drm-openchrome branch, but that is a further down the road. > For the last several weeks fixes where being done for both UMS > and KMS support. For the drm-openchrome kernel I have fixed the bugs > outstanding the was preventing the xf86-video-modesetting driver from > working. Last night the generic modesetting driver was running and I > managed to even use RandR with no major problems. Also the hardware cursor > ass implemented for the kernel tree so the modesetting driver no longer > has problem with the cursor code. With these improvements I will be able > to very soon implement KMS support in the openchrome xorg driver. > As for the UMS side a few bugs have been polished off. IGA mapping > to output was introduced. This fixed the annoying no cursor problem on > VX900 laptops. RandR resolution changing was also fixed. The LVDS also saw > a major face lift to clean it up. The LVDS issues outstanding is for a way > to get the native resolution without a EDID block or using the scratch > register. I have some test code that needs some work. Also multiple > displays also still has problems that need to be resolved. > > _______________________________________________ > Openchrome-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://wiki.openchrome.org/mailman/listinfo/openchrome-devel > > > James, with your latest kernel revision I get a panic due to bad allocations at startup. Also, the problem I was having with the X.org driver (the one who mostly killed my graphic environment) is now in master too. I'm not sure how to switch revisions, but when I figure that out I might try to make a regtest with master to look for the guilty commit.
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