[OpenIndiana-discuss] update (intel) graphics

[Aurélien Larcher]

Hi,
a main difficulty is that illumos lacks some kms bits.
Also the intel linux drm driver was refactored about 4 years ago and
has diverged considerably from our code base.
I have spent some time reorganizing the code base last year to match
Linux without introducing functional changes.
This could help incremental changes.
Unfortunately I am not able to contribute to OI for now so I won't
have time to integrate this.
One could use the xorg-testing repository to push and test incremental changes.
That's how minor chnages to the X stack have been shared in the past.

On 2/9/19, Stephan Althaus <Stephan.Althaus at duedinghausen.eu> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> For my personal like - and for a better acceptance of the oi-distro in
> the world ;-)
> i would like to update the (intel) graphics drivers to a recent state.
>
> it seems to me that this is not an easy job to do,
> as at a quick look these files are at minimum related:
>
> gfx-drm/usr/src/uts/common/sys/agp/agpdefs.h
> gfx-drm/usr/src/uts/common/drm/drm_pciids.h
> gfx-drm/usr/src/uts/intel/io/i915/i915_drv.c
> gfx-drm/usr/src/common/libdrm/libdrm-2.4.75/intel/intel_chipset.h
> illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/intel/io/drm/i915_drv.h
> illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/intel/io/drm/drm_pciids.h
> illumos-gate/usr/src/uts/common/sys/agp/agpdefs.h
> xf86-video-intel-4798e18b2b2c8b0a05dc967e6140fd9962bc1a73/src/intel_driver.h
> xf86-video-intel-4798e18b2b2c8b0a05dc967e6140fd9962bc1a73/src/i915_pciids.h
> xf86-video-intel-4798e18b2b2c8b0a05dc967e6140fd9962bc1a73/xvmc/i915_xvmc.h
>
>  ... broad spread and some files are 'old' ...
>
> I am a beginner, but also would like to provide some help (minimum at
> testing)
> - i dont know the right way how to achieve the goal.
> where should i start? what are the steps?
> Someone willing to act as a mentor??
>
> All hints and opinions are welcome :-)
>
> Thanks for listening!
>
> Greetings,
> Stephan
>
>
>
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