2015-05-11 4:59 GMT+02:00 Damien Miller <[email protected]>: > Possibly dumb question: why the Cirrus CLGD 5446? It doesn't seem like > a very common chipset. > > Is the goal of the project to have a "model" KMS driver and > documentation that can serve as a guide? Or a KMS driver that works well > in a common virtualisation environment? or something else?
Not dumb at all, in fact you're right twice. Having a model KMS driver seems important to make easier the future addition of new KMS driver for other graphics chipset. In the same time, being able to testing it from a common virtualisation environment will allow developer to test it and possibly hack it to understand better how KMS works, regardless the hardware they have. In addition, that may allow more KMS-specific testing through QEMU if needed, for other parts of OpenBSD (from framebuffer console to Xenocara).
