Re: #9361 NORM 1.5-F11: drm not working

2009-06-26 Thread Daniel Drake 
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 07:16 +0200, Harald Welte wrote:
 you have a chrome9 system, please don't try to use it with the old
 DRM code in the kernel which is for chrome/unichrome.

OK, thanks for your input! Much appreciated, glad to have you around and
following our work...

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the current graphics issues,
once you have missed enough appointments to install our latest OS
image ;)
The issues are the screen flicker, and the slowness of full-screen
redraw. You can sort-of see it draw the screen from top to bottom.

cheers,
Daniel


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Re: #9361 NORM 1.5-F11: drm not working

2009-06-25 Thread Harald Welte 
Hi guys, 

i'm currently offline and I'm missing an appointment for writing this e-mail,
thus no time to log into RT.

you have a chrome9 system, please don't try to use it with the old
DRM code in the kernel which is for chrome/unichrome.


VIA has some out-of-mainlien chrome9 DRM driver, which has been rejected
from mainline inclusion so far, because

1) there were some severe security concerns (which I share).  I think those
   have been addressed in later releases (see linux-fbdev-devel)
2) there is still no FOSS code using the DRM interface, and David Airlie
   seems reluctant to merge something
3) the only FOSS codebase that looks like it might eventually end up having
   DRM support on chrome9 so far (gallium3d) has modified the kernel/userspace
   API, and the kernel folks don't want to merge a driver before it provides
   one API that can be used by closed + open source drivers.
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