No DRM kernel support for i830 ?

[Keith Whitwell]

John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 August 2004 07:07 am, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> 
>>Hi there,
>>
>>Judging from /sys/dev/drm/ contents, and listed kernel options in NOTES,
>>there's currently evidence of support for i810/830 chips in FreeBSD,
>>which (I suspect) is the probable reason why DRI is not enabled on my
>>box (FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT from yesterday, latest X.Org).  I also found
>>traces of i810/830 support in FDo CVS
>>(http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/dri/drm/bsd/i830/),
>>getting me to the fact that i8x0 files were removed from the BSD side,
>>since they were not actually ported.  (Unfinished? broken? unstable?)
> 
> 
> The i830 DRM stuff is ported in a branch of DRI, but it's not in DRI head 
> because of a security problem with the code.

And there were some persistent issues with older hardware that I never 
resolved to my satisfaction.

The new 'i915' code fixes these problems and is generally much cleaner - it 
should be the focus for intel chipset development from here out.  I don't know 
any reason why it shouldn't be possible to apply the freebsd changes from the 
branch to this code on the head.

Keith