Thank you for the information, Daniel. Yours, Geir Ove
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Daniel Vetter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Geir, > > You need the full 17 patches from 2009-08-11. The first 16 clean up the > code and prep it, the last one implements drmmode overlay support. Of > course, you have to remove the #ifdef's in the last patch that Eric > inserted temporarily. > > This should work but I won't support it myself and investigate any issues > that pop up. Due to ums/non-gem support removal in 2.10 the code has > changed quite a lot, so I deem that a waste of my time. > > Yours, Daniel > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:02:19AM +0100, Geir Ove Myhr wrote: >> Hi Daniel, >> >> I know you're offline this week, but maybe you can give us an answer >> to this once you're back? >> >> We're considering sticking with -intel 2.9.1 instead of upgrading to >> 2.10.0 for the upcoming release of Ubuntu, which will be a long term >> support release. Of course we would also like KMS video overlay >> support to work on i8xx. The drm part will end up in the kernel, but >> what exactly do we need to backport from -intel in order to make this >> work? Bryce has noted 7 Xv patches from you on Jan 7th. Would that or >> a subset of those be sufficient? >> >> Geir Ove Myhr >> Ubuntu user >> >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Bryce Harrington <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:52:06AM +0100, Geir Ove Myhr wrote: >> >> Hi ubuntu-xers, >> >> >> >> One of our popular feature requests is support for accelerated video >> >> with KMS on i8xx [1]. This is especially important now that UMS >> >> support is dropped. This will supported by default with the 2.6.33 >> >> kernel and -intel driver 2.10.0, but wasn't fully implemented when >> >> 2.6.32 reached stable. Since many distros are using 2.6.32, Daniel >> >> Vetter (who implemented the overlay support) has made a backport [2] >> >> available for distros to use [3]. He says Debian and Gentoo plans to >> >> use this. Any chance of pulling it into Lucid? >> >> >> >> [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/395932 >> >> [2]: >> >> http://gitorious.org/daniel-s-linux-stuff/linux-kernel/commits/intel-kms-overlay-for-2.6.32 >> >> [3]: >> >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2010-January/005372.html >> > >> > The 2.6.33 drm will likely either be backported outright or be available >> > via l-b-m. So that part of the need should be taken care of one way or >> > the other. >> > >> > As to the ddx side of things, I'm kind of liking the idea of sticking >> > with 2.9.1, to preserve the ability for users to fall back to UMS if >> > they need to for some reason. However, getting this bug fixed would be >> > nice too. >> > >> > In looking through the git tree for -intel, there are 7 Xv patches from >> > Daniel Vetter on Jan 7th. I assume one (or more) of these are needed? >> > If we can find out, I'd be willing to look at backporting them so 2.9.1. >> > >> > Bryce >> > >> > >> > > > -- > Daniel Vetter > Mail: [email protected] > Mobile: +41 (0)79 365 57 48 > -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
