[OpenIndiana-discuss] update (intel) graphics

[Stephan Althaus]

Hello!

I would like to have a look into your work,
is there a sourcecode repo for 'xorg-testing' anywhere?

On 02/09/19 02:38 PM, Aurélien Larcher wrote:
> 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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