current state of Intel support

[Zane C. B-H.]

On 2018-05-08 03:22, Johannes Lundberg wrote:
> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 9:01 AM, Zane C. B-H. <vvelox at vvelox.net> wrote:
> 
>> I am curious, where are we at on 11 stable when it comes to support 
>> for
>> newer Intel chipsets? Just wondering how usable X is when it comes to
>> x5-Z8350 Cherry trail or the like.
>> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I've been running 12-CURRENT with drm 4.9 successfully on Cherry Trail 
> but
> that was a while ago. Currently all my Atom boards are on a different
> continent so I haven't been able to do any testing lately with the
> backported drm code to 11-stable.
> It should work fine but if there's any issues you can always run with 
> the
> scfb driver for now. The Z8350 is fast so it can handle software 
> rendering
> quite good.

Awesome. On a related note, looking at scfb, it looks like rotattion is 
supported, which is great.

Any way to do this on the console? Looking at some of the GPD Pocket 
like ultra portables and these tend to come up like a tablet, meaning 
the console is rotated.