[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana (or others) and Dell E6320 - Sandybridge

[Tomas Bodzar]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 08/22/11 08:13, Tomas Bodzar wrote:
>> On Solaris 11 express (151a) are exactly same issues.
>
> Sandybridge support in the Xorg driver came after snv_151.

So probably after Open world will be chance to get it running outside of VESA

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> Unfortunately, I believe the code we use relies on the Intel KMS
> (kernel modesetting) code, which also integrated to Solaris after
> snv_151, so isn't in the illumos sources.  I've heard people say
> they'll look into porting the latest DRI/KMS sources to illumos,
> but haven't heard anyone has a working implementation yet.

KMS is issue on BSD systems as well, because new Intel drivers need
that so all teams are working on support.

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>        -Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>         Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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