[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]

Hi Alan,
thank you for the confirmation that some adapter under the "Intel HD
Graphics" commercial name (5th gen onwards) are supported.
My concern was whether the driver is limited to former "Intel Graphics"
commercial name (3rd and 4th), which indeed includes i915 to i965 chipsets
or, according to ThinkWiki, could apply to some HD Graphics adapters found
in Thinkpad laptops.

I did look through the Wikipedia page before posting and tried to find a
compatibility list for the i915 driver (whose name is indeed quite
confusing) but I could not find conclusive information and I suspected that
the manpage may not be exhaustive.
My question may not have been clear, apologies.
Best regards

Aurelien

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Alan Coopersmith <
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 12/11/15 10:39 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
>
>> Hi Martin,
>> thanks for the update!
>> The manual page mentions that support concerns:
>>
>> "[...] the Intel i845, i865, i915, i945, i965 and G33 series integrated
>> graphics controllers."
>>
>> while ThinkWiki mentions that, for Linux, the i915 driver may be used
>> with Intel
>> HD Graphics.
>> Do you know if it is also the case ?
>>
>
> The man page, even in Solaris, is out of date.   The driver supports some
> generations of Intel HD graphics, but there's been 5 or 6 completely
> different
> generations so far, so "Intel HD graphics" is too vague - it's like
> claiming to
> support all Intel CPU's & ISA extensions without knowing which CPU models.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HD_and_Iris_Graphics
>
> --
>         -Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>          Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
>
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