Hi folks, Is there anybody still using a machine with the first generation Intel integrated graphics chipsets?
The reason I'm asking is that there is no KMS support for these chipsets. On top of that the xf86-vide-intel code only provides XAA acceleration, and that's been ripped out from the Xserver. So I'm not convinced the driver works anymore. And even if it does, the driver might not have any added value. You might actually be better off using the xf86-video-vesa driver, as the shadowfb "acceleration" seems to be somewhat broken in the xf86-video-intel driver, at least for the newer chipsets. The "legacy" part of the xf86-video-intel driver is the last user of the AGP interfaces that the kernel provides to userland. So dropping support for these old chipsets completely would allow us to remove those interfaces from the kernel, which has some (security) benefits. Cheers, Mark
