Intel Q33 and DRM

[Robert Noland]

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 16:49 +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 09/11/2008 17:59 Robert Noland said the following:
> > On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 16:16 +0530, Shanker Balan wrote:
> >> Helo,
> >>
> >> I just got myself Hewlett-Packard DC5800 at work which comes with a Intel Q33
> >> (Bearlake) chipset and runs FreeBSD 7.1. i915.ko does not seem to attach to
> >> any device on.
> >>
> >> Wondering if support can be added for this device.
> > 
> > These chips should be fully supported by both agp and drm in -CURRENT
> > now.  MFC is not expected until after 7.1 is released.
> 
> Robert,
> 
> maybe we could try to include at least agp changes into 7.1?
> I think a lot of people would be trying 7.1 as our latest and greatest
> on their newer intel hardware (e.g. I have G33) and they would get a lot
> of disappointment with intel xorg driver causing an X crash.
> Besides, the patch is sufficiently small.

Yes, I haven't had any negative reports on the agp work...

> drm part of changes is quite big indeed, on the other hand, it can taken
> almost verbatim from head - I needed only to comment out i915
> suspend/resume methods to use in releng_7.

Actually, the suspend/resume should work... It's probably just the
module Makefile that didn't get updated.

robert.

> I am attaching agp patch (my 7-stable code against releng_7) and drm
> patch (my 7-stable code against head).

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