[HEADS UP] drm merged to -STABLE

[Robert Noland]

On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 15:53 -0800, vehemens wrote:
> On Saturday 10 January 2009 08:49:01 am Robert Noland wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 10:01 -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> > > I just merged drm (Direct Rendering) from HEAD.
> > >
> > >         - Support for latest Intel chips
> > >         - Support and fixes for many AMD/ATI chips r500 and below
> > >         - Support AMD/ATI IGP based chips (rs690/rs485)
> > >         - Lots of code cleanups
> > >         - Lots of other fixes and changes since the existing drm
> > >           is 2+ years old
> > >
> > > If you are experiencing a "garbled" screen with certain pci/pci-e based
> > > radeons, I have another patch in HEAD that isn't included yet.
> >
> > I decided to go ahead and fully sync to HEAD, so this should be resolved
> > as well.  This added:
> >
> >         - Use bus_dma to allocate scatter/gather pages for pci GART.
> >           This fixes "garbled" screen issues on pci based radeons.
> >         - Prevent drm from attaching to secondary devices even if they
> >           have the the same pci id.
> 
> What's your plan on incorporating r6xx/r7xx drm :?

The code isn't user ready yet.  What AMD has released, I have building.
AMD is being quite reasonable about their code, so it won't be a big
deal to get that code imported quickly once it is ready.  My expectation
is that we will ship code, at least in -CURRENT, before any linux
distro. ;)

robert.

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