No DRM kernel support for i830 ?

[John Baldwin]

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.

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