Hello everyone, As you might have heard, the Linux kernel recently acquired a new of setting the screen resolution at bootup (kernel mode setting a.k.a. KMS) which X.org has started to leverage. Other recent restructuring in the Linux kernel modules have impacted performance on a Geode in one way or another, some positives, some negatives.
As such, porting the Geode X.org driver to KMS has been added to our roadmap at http://wiki.x.org/wiki/AMDGeodeDriver I'll take this opportunity to reiterate that our goal of fixing Media GX (a.k.a. GX2) auto-detection still hasn't been reached, because achieving it first requires merging GX1 support into the Geode X.org driver (currently covered by the nearly identical Cyrix and NSC X.org drivers) to get rid of a PCI ID overlap between the NSC and Geode driver. Once this step has been accomplished, we can deprecate Cyrix and NSC, and focus on streamlining the unified support for GX1/SC/GX2/LX inside the Geode X.org driver. Volunteers to reach this GX1 integration milestone are extremely welcome, because few of us have any GX1/SC hardware on hand to develop and test the code merge and we simple cannot risk doing it blindfolded. As such, if you have access to GX1 or SC hardware and any coding skill at all, please try and contribute. If necessary, former AMD employees who are reading this mailing list can guide your efforts as required. Cheers! Martin-Éric _______________________________________________ Xorg-driver-geode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-geode
