xf86-video-intel and UMS

[Andriy Gapon]

on 05/03/2011 14:32 Martin Wilke said the following:
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Robert Millan <rmh at debian.org> wrote:
> 
>> 2011/3/4 Lucius Windschuh <lwindschuh at googlemail.com>:
>>> 2011/3/4 Robert Millan <rmh at debian.org>:
>>>> Can someone explain why is xf86-video-intel 2.7.1 used in ports?  Unless
>>>> I missed something, the GIT repository in FDO has more recent branches
>>>> where UMS hasn't been removed yet:
>>>>
>>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/log/?h=2.8
>>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/log/?h=2.9
>>>>
>>>> Is 2.7.1 really the latest portable version?
>>>
>>> It's at least the last version that works reliably and is compatible
>>> to our libdrm, as I see it.
>>> The xf86-video-intel v2.9 triggers assertions in our libdrm_intel.so.1
>>> (just tested it) :-(
>>
>> Why not upgrade libdrm then?  Is there a problem with versions
>> newer than 2.4.17?
>>
>>
> FreeBSD doen't have GEM and KSM support yet..

I use libdrm 2.4.21 in my environment without any problems.
So GEM and KMS do not seem to be required.

-- 
Andriy Gapon