[oi-dev] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sun/Oracle China's DRM//KMS Sol11.2 port backported to function on old-style gfxp_private from pre-2010 era but still immediatedly PANICS

[Aurélien Larcher]

Hello,
OK thanks for the clarification, I was just a matter of knowing on which
hardware this could be tested later on.
Best regards

Aurélien

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Мартин Бохниг <opensxce at mail.ru> wrote:

> Hi Aurélien,
>
> ah, sorry, your link pointed to Sun's/Oracle's new port, rather than to
> Illumos.
> But nevertheless: pciids are a thing that can be updated at one calm
> evening (on complicated code like DRM, in 5 minutes elsewhere).
> However - it is completely pointless to discuss about hw matrix and
> supported pciids, as long as the thing panics due to reasons which are most
> likely not related to any specific cpu with any specific gpu.
>
> For this reason - until we are beyond that step - I personally won't care
> about nor comment on pciids.
>
> Forget the man page or wiki.
> The intel driver supports all external (on-Mainboard) gpu chipsets from
> longer ago and since then all internal gpu's.
>
> Reading such man page is pointless, because even on well supported targets
> such as LinUX it is probably completely outdated.
> The DRM driver's name "i915" is misleading.
> A better term might be "intelgpu".
>
> After we have it running (Sun's 2013 port) - we can drink Champaign and
> update some man page or wiki or whatever we want.
> Problem: We're not there yet.
>
>
> Regards,
> %martin
>
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